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 |