Shapin
Proper noun
Meaning
Shapin (plural Shapins)
A surname.
Anagrams
Examples
As Shapin and Schaffer describe, “it became clear that unless the phenomenon could be produced in England with one of the two pumps available, then no one in England would accept the claims Huygens had made, or his competence in working the pump”.
Steve Shapin in Harvard Magazine noted that Watson had written an unlikely "Book of Manners", telling about the skills needed at different times in a scientist's career; he wrote Watson was known for aggressively pursuing his own goals at the university.
However, Shapin and Schaffer also note that “the accomplishment of replication was dependent on contingent acts of judgment.
Steven Shapin also used it in 1979.