Steven Shapin

11 books

Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

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

Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer

440 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
Never Pure by Steven Shapin

Never Pure

Steven Shapin

568 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative fast-paced
Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie by Steven Shapin

Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie

Steven Shapin

568 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction essays history science challenging informative medium-paced
The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation by Steven Shapin

The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Steven Shapin

488 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin

The Scientific Revolution

Steven Shapin

232 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England by Steven Shapin

A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England

Steven Shapin

512 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative medium-paced
Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves by Steven Shapin
Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
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Steven Shapin

Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

Steven Shapin

560 pages • missing pub info (editions)

Foodists: Writing About Eating from the London Review of Books by Margaret Visser, Steven Shapin, Joanna Biggs, Angela Carter, Bee Wilson, E.S. Turner, John Lanchester, John Bayley, Emma Rothschild, James Meek, Adam Smyth, Francis Wyndham

Foodists: Writing About Eating from the London Review of Books

LRB Collections #2

Margaret Visser, Steven Shapin, Joanna Biggs, Angela Carter, Bee Wilson, E.S. Turner, John Lanchester, John Bayley, Emma Rothschild, James Meek, Adam Smyth, Francis Wyndham

missing page info • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture by Steven Shapin, Barry Barnes
Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture
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Steven Shapin, Barry Barnes

Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture

Steven Shapin, Barry Barnes

251 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

medium-paced
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
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
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Steven Shapin

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

Steven Shapin

565 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)