Shapin, Steven

The scientific revolution by Steven Shapin ( Book )
22 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 1,834 libraries worldwide
Rejecting the notion that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, Shapin emphasizes the social practices by which scientific knowledge was produced and the social purposes for which it was intended. He shows how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. And he treats science not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and.

A social history of truth : civility and science in seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin ( Book )
12 editions published between 1994 and 2007 in English and held by 817 libraries worldwide
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? In A Social History of Truth, a leading scholar addresses these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial period in the history of early modern science: the social world of gentlemen-philosophers in seventeenth-century England. Steven Shapin paints a vivid picture of the relations between gentlemanly culture and scientific practice. He argues that problems of credibility in science were solved through the codes and conventions of genteel conduct: trust, civility, honor, and integrity. These codes formed, and arguably still form, an important basis for securing reliable knowledge about the natural world.

The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation by Steven Shapin ( Book )
9 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 735 libraries worldwide
"In this brilliant book Shapin takes us from celebration and criticism to description and understanding of one of the most important phenomena of the twentieth century-the creation of technical novelties. Richly paradoxical and entertaining, The Scientific Life contrasts the evidence-free moralizing of the cultural critics and early sociologists of science with the often insightful analyses of the despised industrial researchers. He shows that when adequately described the worlds of technoscientific research and venture capital are not the soulless, routinized, bureaucratic antithesis of the academic ideal, but ones where the necessary uncertainties of innovation are dealt with using face-time, trust, charisma, and even proverbs, things our narratives mistakenly consign to a pre-modern era. This is a book where the doers get their due and the contemplators their comeuppance; where the quotidian is richer than the transcendent."--David Edgerton, author of The Shock of the Old -- Book jacket.

Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life : including a translation of Thomas Hobbes, Dialogus physicus de natura aeris by Simon Schaffer by Steven Shapin ( Book )
6 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and held by 669 libraries worldwide

Natural order : historical studies of scientific culture ( Book )
7 editions published between 1979 and 1993 in English and held by 569 libraries worldwide

Science incarnate : historical embodiments of natural knowledge ( Book )
3 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 410 libraries worldwide

Never pure : historical studies of science as if it was produced by people with bodies, situated in time, space, culture, and society, and struggling for credibility and authority by Steven Shapin ( Book )
4 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 362 libraries worldwide

Leviathan and the air-pump : Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life by Steven Shapin ( Book )
8 editions published between 1985 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 159 libraries worldwide

Wetenschap is cultuur by Simon Schaffer ( Book )
1 edition published in 2005 in Dutch and held by 16 libraries worldwide
Artikelen over onderwerpen en figuren uit de geschiedenis van de (natuur)wetenschap.

De wetenschappelijke revolutie by Steven Shapin ( Book )
1 edition published in 2005 in Dutch and held by 13 libraries worldwide
Geschiedenis van de wetenschap, met name de periode rond 1600 waarin het wereldbeeld ingrijpend veranderde.