Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer ; with a new introduction by the authors.

Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science / Richard Yeo.

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Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life / Steven Shapin & Simon Schaffer ; with a new introduction by the authors.

Notebooks, English virtuosi, and early modern science / Richard Yeo.