Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order.

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

Autorenporträt

Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer With a new introduction by the authors

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"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