Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

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

Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

440 pages 1985

2 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do exper-iments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experiment...

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