Handling 'occult qualities' in the scientific revolution: disciplines and new approaches to natural philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton

"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...

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Main Author: Wang, Xiaona (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Series:Medieval and early modern philosophy and science volume 37
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"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 transmission of this notion is key to understanding almost every facet of the new physics of the age."
Physical Description:VIII, 252 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
ISBN:9789004535114