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Fuss over nothing

Nature volume 321, page 480 (1986)Cite this article

Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life.

By Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. Princeton University Press: 1986. Pp.440. 60, 43.

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  1. Assistant Curator at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AZ, UK

    W. D. Hackmann

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