Shapin Steven: Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: 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.