Editorial: Brill
Colección: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 37
Número de páginas: 260 págs.
Fecha de edición: 05-01-2023
EAN: 9789004535114
ISBN: 978-90-04-53511-4
Precio (sin IVA): 125,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 130,00 €
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.