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In 1680, Robert Boyle published the Second Part of his Continuation of New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air....According to Boyle's preface, the experimental work... was mainly done by a remunerated technician... Denis Papin. The air-pump with which the experiments were performed was... of Papin's own design... At least some, and perhaps the greatest part, of the design of the experimental project was also owing to the technician....It seems also that the technician was partly, if not mainly, responsible for the composition of the experimental narratives.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Steven Shapin

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Born: 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Steven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Known for:
  1. Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985)
  2. The Scientific Revolution (1996)
  3. A social history of truth (1994)
  4. The scientific life (2008)

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