Steven Shapin: 4 books
A Social History of Truth
Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?
In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
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,...
by Steven Shapin
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic essay featuring...
by Steven Shapin
Language: German
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: June 30, 2017
"Wissenschaftliche Revolution", das meint die Durchsetzung neuer Formen von Erkenntnisansprüchen, Theorien und experimentellen Praktiken an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit: nicht nur die Herausbildung einer mathematisierten Physik, die lange Zeit als das Paradigma der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaft...