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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (New in Paper)
by Schaffer, Steven, Schaffer, Simon
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- Comments: Revised. Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines 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 Goodly 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 i
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- ISBN-13: 9780691150208
- ISBN: 0691150206
- Publication Date: 2011
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Schaffer, Steven is the author of 'Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (New in Paper)', published 2011 under ISBN 9780691150208 and ISBN 0691150206.
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