Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets

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

List of contents

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;

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Mark A. Waddell
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032926810
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92681-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 400 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Historiography, History of Science, Archaeology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards