The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
Journal:
Isis
Volume:
vol. 79, no. 3 (Sep., 1988), pp. 373-404
Year:
1988
This article appeared in "A Special Issue on Artifact and Experiment"
Shapin argues that the house of experiment was used for trying, show, and discoursing on scientific experiements and observations. He went into detail about the houses of Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke.
