Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases |
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| Author:
| Potter, Elizabeth |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-21455-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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Boyle's Law rested on mechanistic principles, but Potter shows us an alternative law based on hylozooic principles (the belief that all matter is animated), whose adherents challenged social stability and the status quo in 17th-century England.
Boyle's Law rested on mechanistic principles, but Potter shows us an alternative law based on hylozooic principles (the belief that all matter is animated), whose adherents challenged social stability and the status quo in 17th-century England.