Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

Broschiertes Buch

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Simon Schaffer is professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge.

Produktdetails

• Princeton Classics
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780691178165
• ISBN-10: 069117816X
• Artikelnr.: 48097147

Rezensionen

"Shapin and Schaffer work out the implications of these debates [between Hobbes and Boyle] for the history of science with great skill of interpretation and exposition. They use their findings and their analysis to give an explanation of the experimental enterprise in general, which, although it is not philosophical in nature, always takes philosophy most seriously. This is simply one of the most original, enjoyable and important books published in the history of science in recent years."--Owen Hannaway, Technology and Culture