Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

Name: Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
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ISBN: 9780691024325

ISBN-10: 0691024324

ISBN-13: 9780691024325

Edition: 1986

Authors: Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

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In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experiments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experimental science? Schaffer and Shapin believed it does. Focusing on the debates between Boyle and his archcritic Thomas Hobbes over the air-pump, the authors proposed that "solutions to the problem of knowledge are solutions to the problem of social order." Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/21/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.17" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English