Handling 'Occult Qualities' in the Scientific Revolution : Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, From John Dee to Isaac Newton
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| Title: | Handling 'Occult Qualities' in the Scientific Revolution : Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, From John Dee to Isaac Newton |
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| Description: | The Scientific Revolution saw the redefinition of many scholastic notions about the nature of the world and its constituent parts, from planets to particles. Wang's book introduces a convincing and wide-ranging narrative of the changing place of ‘occult qualities'in the context of emergent new scientific methods and early modern disciplinary realignments. Through in-depth analysis of the diverse treatments of this notion, whereby it becomes now a hollow phrase, now a touchstone for the superiority of new physics, Wang shows how the transformation of this notion is key to understanding almost every facet of the new physics of the age. |
| Authors: | Xiaona Wang |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Enlightenment, Physics--History--17th century, Occultism and science--History--17th century |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Scientific Revolution saw the redefinition of many scholastic notions about the nature of the world and its constituent parts, from planets to particles. Wang's book introduces a convincing and wide-ranging narrative of the changing place of ‘occult qualities'in the context of emergent new scientific methods and early modern disciplinary realignments. Through in-depth analysis of the diverse treatments of this notion, whereby it becomes now a hollow phrase, now a touchstone for the superiority of new physics, Wang shows how the transformation of this notion is key to understanding almost every facet of the new physics of the age. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004535114 9789004535473 |
