Book ID: CBB000059741

Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon (1985)

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Shapin, Steven B. (Author)
Schaffer, Simon (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 1985
Physical Details: xiv + 440 pp.; illus.; bibl.; index

Reviewed By

Review Beretta, M. (1996) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 451-52). unapi

Review Pascual, M.J. (1988) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Sylva Clius: Revista de Historia de la Ciencia (pp. 81-82). unapi

Review Jennings, R.C. (1988) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (pp. 403-10). unapi

Review Martinich, A.P. (1989) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Journal of the History of Philosophy (pp. 308-9). unapi

Review Heilbron, J.L. (1989) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Medical History (pp. 256-57). unapi

Review Chabaud, G. (1996) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (pp. 382-84). unapi

Review Bernhardt, J. (1996) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 368-69). unapi

Review Hankins, T.L. (1986) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Science (pp. 1040-42). unapi

Review Hackmann, W.D. (1986) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Nature (p. 480). unapi

Review Sargent, R.-M. (1988(1)) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (pp. 53-63). unapi

Review Stewart, L. (1988) Review of "Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris, by Schaffer, Simon". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences (pp. 193-97). unapi

Associated with

Article H. Floris Cohen (2017) A Second Look: Leviathan and the Air-pump: Editor’s Introduction. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 107-107). unapi

Article Azadeh Achbari (2017) The Reviews of Leviathan and the Air-Pump: A Survey. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 108-116). unapi

Article Dominique Pestre (2017) Comment: The Making of a Reference Book. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 119-121). unapi

Article Alex Wellerstein (2017) Comment: The Epistemology of Civility and the Civility of Epistemology. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 140-142). unapi

Article Lijing Jiang (2017) Comment: Taking Experiments Afresh Again. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 133-135). unapi

Article Thomas L. Hankins (2017) Comment: Reviewing a Review. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 117-118). unapi

Article Jeroen Bouterse (2017) Comment: On Rereading a Classic. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 130-132). unapi

Article Vivette García-Deister (2017) Comment: El Leviathan y la bomba de vacío, an Enduring Epistemological Intervention. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 136-139). unapi

Article Paul Wood (2017) Comment: Behemoth v. the Sceptical Chymist, Revisited. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 124-126). unapi

Article Trevor Pinch (2017) Comment: All Pumped Up about the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 127-129). unapi

Article J. L. Heilbron (2017) Comment: A Last Judgment. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 122-123). unapi

Article Simon Schaffer; Steven Shapin (2017) Final Comment: Authors’ Response. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 143-144). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Burchell, David
Clericuzio, Antonio
Cohen, H. Floris
Cummins, Juliet
Detel, Wolfgang
Giudice, Franco
Journals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Intellectual History Review
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
History of European Ideas
History of Political Thought
Publishers
Akademie-Verlag
Ashgate
Harrassowitz
Pennsylvania State University Press
Vrin
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Geometry
Science and politics
Materialism
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
People
Hobbes, Thomas
Boyle, Robert
Descartes, René
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle
Galilei, Galileo
Spinoza, Baruch
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
England
Great Britain
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