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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Princeton University Press (1985)
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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.Author's Profile
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1989, 2011
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0691150206 9780691150208 069117816X
DOI
10.1093/bjps/39.3.403
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Inference to the Best explanation.Peter Lipton - 2004 - In Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science. Routledge. pp. 193.
Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism.John Sutton - 1998 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
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