Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science...
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Modern Science (2015). A hostile review in the Wall Street Journal by Steven Shapin attracted a number of commentaries, a response by Weinberg, and an exchange...
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Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (published 1985) is a book by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer. It examines the debate between Robert Boyle and...
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denied the very possibility of vacuum existence. Historians of science Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, in their 1985 book Leviathan and the Air-Pump, describe...
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Jonathan Swift's satire of the impractical research of the Royal Society Shapin, Steven (2012). "The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its...
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Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-09745-2. Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin, "Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture", Sage, 1979...
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essay on the unification of the science of man. New York: G. Braziller. Shapin, Steven (1995). "Here and Everywhere: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" (PDF)...
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harmless levels. According to the historian and sociologist of science Steven Shapin: From the pre-Socratics through the Hippocratic and Galenic corpus,...
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Caradonna, 634–36. Caradonna, 653–54. "Royal Charters". royalsociety.org. Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century...
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Haven, 1993. Porter, R. 'Creation and Credence', in Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture, Sage...
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