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Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases (Paperback) Loot Price: R533
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Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases (Paperback): Elizabeth Potter

Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases (Paperback)

Elizabeth Potter

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Boyle s Law, which describes the relation between the pressure and volume of a gas, was worked out by Robert Boyle in the mid-1600s. His experiments are still considered examples of good scientific work and continue to be studied along with their historical and intellectual contexts by philosophers, historians, and sociologists. Now there is controversy over whether Boyle s work was based only on experimental evidence or whether it was influenced by the politics and religious controversies of the time, including especially class and gender politics.

Elizabeth Potter argues that even good science is sometimes influenced by such issues, and she shows that the work leading to the Gas Law, while certainly based on physical evidence, was also shaped by class and gendered considerations. At issue were two descriptions of nature, each supporting radically different visions of class and gender arrangements. 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."

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Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2001
First published: April 2001
Authors: Elizabeth Potter
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21455-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > States of matter > Physics of gases
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 0-253-21455-6
Barcode: 9780253214553

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