Description
| Product ID: | 9780691178165 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Princeton Classics |
| Title: | Leviathan and the Air-Pump |
| Subtitle: | Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life |
| Authors: | Author: Simon Schaffer, Steven Shapin |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Philosophy of science, History of science, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy of science, History of science |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-11-14 |
