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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shapin, Steven, author.     Subjects     Physics -- England -- History.     Physics -- Experiments -- Philosophy.     Science -- England -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.     Air-pumps -- History -- 17th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shapin, Steven, author.       by title:      Leviathan and the ai...         MARC Display

Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer ; with a new introduction by the authors. by Shapin, Steven, author. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2018. Subjects Physics -- England -- History.   Physics -- Experiments -- Philosophy.   Science -- England -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.   Air-pumps -- History -- 17th century. ISBN:  9780691178165 (paperback) : 069117816X (paperback) : Series:  Princeton classics. Description:  liv, 391 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Edition:  First Princeton Classics paperback edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult New Books 533.5 Sh missing from shelf Add Copy to MyList

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