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| Named Person: | Thomas Hobbes; Robert Boyle; Robert Boyle, 1627-1691; Thomas Hobbes; Thomas Hobbes |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Shapin; Simon Schaffer; Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN: | 0691083932 9780691083933 |
| OCLC Number: | 12078908 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Dialogus physicus de natura aeris / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. 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 -- Appendix. Translation of Hobbes's Dialogus physicus. |
| Responsibility: | Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer. |
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