Jesuit science and the end of nature's secrets / Mark A. Waddell.

  • Waddell, Mark
Date:
[2015]
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]

Physical description

x, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The crisis of certainty -- Building a better ontology -- The demise of occult qualities -- Spectacle, uncertainty, and the fallibility of the eye -- Probabilism, or the world as it might be -- The culture of marvels, exposed.

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    History of Medicine
    ABP /WAD
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ISBN

  • 9781472449726
  • 147244972X