Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Edinburgh University, 2014-2018. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Medieval and early modern philosophy and science, 2468-6808 ; volume 37
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