Leviathan and the air-pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Simon Schaffer

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1. Verfasser: Shapin, Steven (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1989, c1985
Ausgabe:1st Princeton pbk. print. with corrections
Schriftenreihe:ACLS Humanities E-Book
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Understanding experiment
  • Seeing and believing : the experimental production of pneumatic facts
  • Seeing double : Hobbes's politics of plenism before 1660
  • The trouble with experiment : Hobbes versus Boyle
  • Boyle's adversaries : experiment defended
  • Replication and its troubles : air-pumps in the 1660s
  • Natural philosophy and the restoration : interests in dispute
  • The polity of science : conclusions
  • Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus