Leviathan And The Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, And The Experimental Life (Princeton Classics) (Paperback)

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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton Classics)

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. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild.

Specification of Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton Classics)

GENERAL
AuthorSteven Shapin
BindingPaperback
LanguageEnglish
EditionReprint
ISBN-100691150206
ISBN-139780691150208
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year2011
DIMENSIONS
Height6.25 inch.
Length1.25 inch.
Width9.25 inch.
Weight1.35 pounds.

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