Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 0691150206 | 2011 | 448 pages | 2 MB
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.