Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
by
Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
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,...