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: 9780691150208

ISBN-10: 0691150206

ISBN-13: 9780691150208

Edition: 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin

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Leviathan and the Air-Pumpexamines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. 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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English