The Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide! Shop NowThe Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide! Shop Now
Product Image
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list

Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

By Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
eBook
$24.95
By Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer
|Write a Review
Rewards iconEarn 5X Rewards 1/1 - 12/31
Formats
See All Formats & Editions
In stock
Buy this eBook as a gift for someone else

Personalize your gift

Required *

  • If the selected date is today, the recipient will receive the eBook within 1 hour.
  • If the selected date is in the future, the eBook will be delivered to the recipient around 3:00 AM EST on the specified date.
0 / 250
Pick up in store
Your local store may have stock of this item.

Available on compatible , the free NOOK App, and in My Digital Library

NOOK App

Open NOOK app

Download NOOK app

[@portabletext/react] Unknown block type "image", specify a component for it in the `components.types` prop

NOOK Devices

  • NOOK GlowLight 4 Plus
  • NOOK GlowLight 4e
  • NOOK GlowLight 4
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 7.8
  • NOOK GlowLight 3
  • NOOK GlowLight Plus 6
  • NOOK 9" Lenovo Tablet (Arctic Grey and Frost Blue)
  • NOOK 10" HD Lenovo Tablet
  • NOOK Tablet 7" & 10.1
  • NOOK by Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 [Tab A and Tab 4]
  • NOOK by Samsung [Tab 4 10.1, S2 & E]
  • NOOK for iOS
  • NOOK for Android

BN.com website

Go to your Digital Library in My Account

Limit 1 per customer

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. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the…

More in This Series

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
#1 in Series
Paperback
$24.95
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition
#1 in Series
eBook
$26.95
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
Walter Kaufmann
#3 in Series
eBook
$26.95
Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
Stephen Greenblatt
#4 in Series
eBook
$19.95
Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition
Faust I & II, Volume 2: Goethe's Collected Works - Updated Edition
Johann von Goethe
#5 in Series
eBook
$10.99
$16.95
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition
R. Palmer
#7 in Series
eBook
$19.99
$35.00
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated Edition
Henri Pirenne
#8 in Series
eBook
$17.95
The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition
Bernard Lewis
#11 in Series
eBook
$13.49
$22.95
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition
#13 in Series
Paperback
$19.58
$24.95
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
Carol J. Clover
#15 in Series
Paperback
$19.95
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
Carol J. Clover
#15 in Series
eBook
$19.95
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition
Desiderius Erasmus
#16 in Series
eBook
$16.95
Walden: 150th Anniversary Edition
Walden: 150th Anniversary Edition
#20 in Series
Paperback
$9.95
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition
Sheldon S. Wolin
#23 in Series
Paperback
$31.95
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
R. Palmer
#28 in Series
eBook
$24.95
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
R. R. Palmer
#28 in Series
Paperback
$26.95
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Richard Rorty
#30 in Series
Paperback
$27.95
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition
#30 in Series
eBook
$22.95

Categories

Science & TechnologyNonfictionHistory & Philosophy of ScienceHistory of Science