Margaret Cavendish, Observations on Experimental Philosophy
Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer, Chapter
1, "Understanding Experiment" (pp. 3-21), and Chapter 7, "Natural Philosophy
and the Restoration: Interests in Dispute" (pp. 283-331)
from
Leviathan and the Air-pump : Hobbes,
Boyle, and the Experimental Life (R)
NOTE: Chapter 7 will be on e-reserve; Chapter 1 is optional, but will give you an overview of the book's argument
Works to be consulted in the Rare Book Room
Robert Boyle, A Continuation of New Experiments QC 161.B793
OR New experiments and Observations touching Cold QC 278 .B65
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; or, The Matter,
Forme, and Power ofaCommon-wealth
JC 153.H651651a
SirIsaac Newton, Philosophia
Naturalis Principia Mathematica QA 803 .A2 1687
William Harvey, Exercitationes de Generatione
Animalium QP 101.4 .H35