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a favorable assessment of what Orr describes as Shapin's natural history of the American scientist.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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a favorable assessment of what Orr describes as Shapin's natural history of the American scientist.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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a favorable assessment of what Orr describes as Shapin's natural history of the American scientist.
The Chicago Blog 2009
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Note 13: See, for example, Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985);
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These included debates with John Wallis and Seth Ward that centred on Hobbes's alleged squaring of the circle (Jesseph 1999), debates with John Bramhall about liberty and necessity (continuing some discussions of the 1640s), and debates with Robert Boyle about the experimental physics of the Royal Society (Shapin & Schaffer 1989).
Thomas Hobbes Duncan, Stewart 2009
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It is worth stressing that Boyle had this limited view of his result, for Shapin and Schaffer 1985 suggest that
Sticky Wants to Grab 2009
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In his new book, Shapin ventures beyond the strict boundaries of the history of science.
Which Scientist Can You Trust? Orr, H. Allen 2009
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The Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, Shapin is perhaps best known for two works on seventeenth-century science, A Social History of Truth (1994) and The Scientific Revolution (1996).
Which Scientist Can You Trust? Orr, H. Allen 2009
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My rediscovery of the word “immured,” which is how Shapin describes a shipment of organic asparagus that had been held up in distribution from Argentina.
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“The danger comes when science gets to be seen as simply politics by other means,” Shapin says.
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