Leviathan and the Air-Pump
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Princeton University Press
Автор:
Shapin Steven
Издательство::
Princeton University Press
Год:
2012
Страницы:
440
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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.
