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