 | Handling "Occult Qualities" in the Scientific Revolution Subjects: Jews; Political culture; Group identity; Citizenship; Cities and towns Ancient; Cities and towns Ancient.; Citizenship.; Group identity.; Jews.; Jews; Jews; Political culture.; Politics and government.; 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. |
