An Experiment With An Air Pump

Author : Shelagh Stephenson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408175169
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Experiment With An Air Pump written by Shelagh Stephenson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play 1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999 - In a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering, the cellar of the same house reveals a dark secret buried for 200 years. An Experiment with an Air Pump was joint recipient of the 1997 Margaret Ramsay Award and premiered at The Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester in February 1997. Due for a major London production in autumn 1998. Her previous play The Memory of Water won the 1996 Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Radio Play and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original Drama

Author : Shelagh Stephenson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472536959
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Experiment With An Air Pump written by Shelagh Stephenson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play 1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999 - In a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering, the cellar of the same house reveals a dark secret buried for 200 years.An Experiment with an Air Pump was joint recipient of the 1997 Margaret Ramsay Award and premiered at The Royal Exchange Theatre Company, Manchester in February 1997. Due for a major London production in autumn 1998. Her previous play The Memory of Water won the 1996 Writers' Guild Award for Best Original Radio Play and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original Drama

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838495
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan and the Air-Pump written by Steven Shapin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not decay into ad hominem attacks and political division. Boyle proposed the experiment as cure. He argued that facts should be manufactured by machines like the air-pump so that gentlemen could witness the experiments and produce knowledge that everyone agreed on. Hobbes, by contrast, looked for natural law and viewed experiments as the artificial, unreliable products of an exclusive guild. The new approaches taken in Leviathan and the Air-Pump have been enormously influential on historical studies of science. Shapin and Schaffer found a moment of scientific revolution and showed how key scientific givens--facts, interpretations, experiment, truth--were fundamental to a new political order. Shapin and Schaffer were also innovative in their ethnographic approach. Attempting to understand the work habits, rituals, and social structures of a remote, unfamiliar group, they argued that politics were tied up in what scientists did, rather than what they said. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer use the confrontation between Hobbes and Boyle as a way of understanding what was at stake in the early history of scientific experimentation. They describe the protagonists' divergent views of natural knowledge, and situate the Hobbes-Boyle disputes within contemporary debates over the role of intellectuals in public life and the problems of social order and assent in Restoration England. In a new introduction, the authors describe how science and its social context were understood when this book was first published, and how the study of the history of science has changed since then.

Author : Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book An Experiment with an Air Pump written by Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9783906747019
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Victorine Müller written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
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Download or read book New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Air written by Robert Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shelagh Stephenson
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Stephenson Plays: 1 written by Shelagh Stephenson and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelagh Stephenson is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights. This book contains a collection of four plays.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Illustrated written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a doctor who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth. Originally published anonymously in 1837, it was later published in Hawthorne's collection Twice-Told Tales, also in 1837.

Author : Robert Boyle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Defence of the Doctrine Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, Propos'd by Mr. R. Boyle in His New Physico-mechanical Experiments; Against the Objections of Franciscus Linus written by Robert Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1662 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Parsons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951900505
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Experiment with an Air Pump written by Simon Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: