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

In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do experiments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have…

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