Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton Classics)
by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
A foundational analysis of the Hobbes-Boyle controversy that reveals how experimental science emerged through social negotiation and debate over evidence and authority.
About This Book
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the historical confrontation between Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle concerning the legitimacy of experimental methods.
The book explores how differing views on knowledge, authority, and evidence shaped the early development of modern science.
Shapin and Schaffer analyze the social and political dimensions of scientific practice in seventeenth-century England.
The work remains influential in the history and sociology of science for its detailed account of experimental culture.
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