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

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 newly inve

• | Author: Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 14, 2017
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780691178165
• | ISBN-10: 069117816X