Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Princeton University Press (1985)
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Simon Schaffer
Cambridge University
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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.
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| Reprint years | 1989 |
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| ISBN(s) | 0691150206 9780691150208 |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/39.3.403 |
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