TY - BOOK ID - 138409705 TI - Handling Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution : Disciplines and New Approaches to Natural Philosophy, from John Dee to Isaac Newton. PY - 2023 SN - 9789004535473 9004535470 PB - Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Occultism and science KW - Physics KW - Enlightenment. KW - History KW - Europe KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138409705 AB - "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"-- ER -