Mark A. Waddell

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets

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Produktbeschreibung

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century. This book documents how particular Jesuits sought to reveal and expose nature's myriad secrets through

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781032926810
• ISBN-10: 1032926813
• Artikelnr.: 71693873

Autorenporträt

Mark A. Waddell is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, with a joint appointment in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. He received his PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Crisis of Certainty
Chapter 2 Building a Better Ontology
Chapter 3 The Demise of Occult Qualities
Chapter 4 Spectacle, Uncertainty, and the Fallibility of the Eye
Chapter 5 Probabilism, or the World as it Might Be
Chapter 6 The Culture of Marvels, Exposed
Chapter 101 Conclusion