Leviathan and the Air-Pump

Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the air pump. Princeton (NJ) Princeton Univ P, 1965. 

Shapin, Steven and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the air-pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer. Princeton (NJ) Princeton Univ P, 1985. xiv, 440 p. ISBN 0- 691-08393-2... 

See Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law (Cambridge Harvard University Press, 1988) Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1985). Also see, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2d ed. (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1986). 

Shapin, Steven, and Simon Schaffer. Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life. Princeton Princeton University Press, 1985. 

Marie Boas Hall, Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1958), presents Boyle as a corpuscular philosopher. Steven Shapin and Simon Shaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1985), discuss Boyles work with the air pump in its social and rhetorical contexts. More recendy, Rose-Mary Sargent, The Dijfi-... 

Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge, pp. 53. See Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump, pp. 341-2. 

Shapin, S., Schaffer, S. 1985. Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press. 

In their widely heralded book, Leviathan and the Air-Pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life, Shapin and Schaffer reduce Hooke s explanation of the compound microscope to empiricist standards for knowledge. They argue that, for Hooke, the power of new scientific instruments rests on their capacity to enlarge the dominion of the senses, revealing spectacular scenes to those skilled in instrumental techniques. According to these scholars, Hooke implores experimenters to use such devices to overcome the infirmities of the senses, and to enlarge the range of empirical attributes accessible to experimenters (Shapin and Schaffer 1985, 36-37). 

Shapin S, Schaffer S (2011) Leviathan and the air pump Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Princeton University Press, New Haven... 

It is fair to say that the traditional view of alchemy represented by Butterfield, the Halls, and many other writers on early modern science has found a new home in the most recent surveys of the Scientific Revolution. The failure to recognize a role for chymistry in the development of the mechanical philosophy has not been rectified in the most recent comprehensive treatments of the subject, despite the emphatic claims to originality made for newer historiographical approaches such as the sociology of scientific knowledge. The well-known Leviathan and the Air Pump (1985) of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer explicitly views alchemy as a foil to the experimental science of Boyle and the... 

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