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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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Author:   Xiaona Wang
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   37
Weight:   0.561kg
ISBN:  

9789004535114

ISBN 10:   900453511
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   05 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Re-disciplining “Occult Qualities”: Mechanics and the Mixed Mathematical Sciences  1.1 Being “Skilled in ‘Catoptrics’ ”  1.2 Testing a Body of “Astronomical Hypotheses”  1.3 Dismissing “Idle Imaginings”  1.4 Creating the “Unheard-of Paradox” 2 Manifesting “Occult Causes”: Empirical Investigations and Experimental Philosophy  2.1 The Physician’s Pathway  2.2 The Baconian Method  2.3 Occult Causes; Manifest Effects  2.4 The “Physico-Mathematicall-Experimentall” Programme 3 Employing the Occult Powers of the Lodestone and Orbital Motions  3.1 Gilbert’s Magnetism  3.2 Magnetism and Gravity  3.3 Approaches to Orbital Motions 4 Exploring Hidden Qualities of Matter: “vis activa”  4.1 Matter Emits (Magnetical) Effluvia  4.2 Matter Vibrates and So Does Aether  4.3 Matter Attracts and Repels 5 Reintroducing “Occult Qualities” into Natural Philosophy? Newton’s Approaches to Physics  5.1 Early Immersion in the Mixed Mathematical Programme  5.2 The Inimitable Newtonian Methodology: Dynamics  5.3 Approaches to Physics and Active Principles Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Xiaona Wang, Ph. D. (2019, University of Edinburgh), is now a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, working on a three-year project on early modern gravitational theories.

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