Week 11

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Uncovering Scientific Truth

 

April 9

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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
 
 

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