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" Leviathan and the air-pump : "
Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer
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BL
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704599
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b526788
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Shapin, Steven
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Leviathan and the air-pump : : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer /\ Steven Shapin Simon Schaffer
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, 1985
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xiv, 440 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0691024324
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: 0691083932
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: 9780691024325
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: 9780691083933
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-426) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Dialogus physicus de natura aeris / Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
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Boyle, Robert,1627-1691
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Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679., Leviathan
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Air-pump-- History
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Physics-- Experiments-- History
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Science-- England-- History
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Air
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Physics
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Science-- history
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| Dewey Classification
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533/.5
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QC166.S47 1985
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Schaffer, Simon,1955-
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Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679.
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