How Long to Read Leviathan and the Air-Pump

How Long Does it Take to Read Leviathan and the Air-Pump?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their disputes ranged from the physical integrity of the air-pump to the intellectual integrity of the knowledge it might yield. Both Boyle and Hobbes were looking for ways of establishing knowledge that did not...

How long is Leviathan and the Air-Pump?

Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin is 448 pages long, and a total of 115,584 words.

This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Leviathan and the Air-Pump Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 31 minutes to read Leviathan and the Air-Pump aloud.

What Reading Level is Leviathan and the Air-Pump?

Leviathan and the Air-Pump is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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