INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. INTRODUCTION TO THE 2011 EDITION xi
5. NOTES ON SOURCES AND CONVENTIONS li
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS liii
7. I. Understanding Experiment 1
8. II. Seeing and Believing: The Experimental Production of Pneumatic Facts 22
9. III. Seeing Double: Hobbes's Politics of Plenism before 1660 80
10. IV. The Trouble with Experiment: Hobbes versus Boyle 110
11. V. Boyle's Adversaries: Experiment Defended 155
12. VI. Replication and Its Troubles: Air-Pumps in the i66os 225
13. VII. Natural Philosophy and the Restoration: Interests in Dispute 283
14. VIII. The Polity of Science: Conclusions 332
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 345
16. INDEX 379