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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

作者 Steven Shapin/ Simon Schaffer
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life:LeviathanandtheAir-Pumpexaminestheconflictsoverthevalueandproprietyofexperimentalmethodsbe

內容簡介

內容簡介 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. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Simon Schaffer is professor of history of science at the University of Cambridge.

商品規格

書名 / Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
作者 / Steven Shapin Simon Schaffer
簡介 / Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life:LeviathanandtheAir-Pumpexaminestheconflictsoverthevalueandproprietyofexperimentalmethodsbe
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9780691178165
ISBN10 / 069117816X
EAN / 9780691178165
誠品26碼 / 2682198884006
頁數 / 448
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裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 21.1X14X3.3CM
級別 / N:無
重量(g) / 408.2