Occult and scientific mentalities in the Renaissance / edited by Brian Vickers

Englisch

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984

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Rezensiert in: Jobe, Thomas H.: [Rezension von: Vickers, Brian, Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance], 1986

Print version: ISBN 9780521258791

978-0-511-57299-9 : ebook

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-521-25879-1 (Druckausgabe) : hardback, 978-0-521-33836-3 (andere physische Form) : paperback

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511572999

At the crossroads of magic and science: John Dee's archemastrie / Nicholas H. Clulee

The occult tradition in the English universities of the Renaissance: a reassessment / Mordechai Feingold

Analogy versus identity: the rejection of occult symbolism, 1580-1680 / Brian Vickers

Marin Mersenne: Renaissance naturalism and Renaissance magic / William L. Hine

Nature, art, and psyche: Jung, Pauli, and the Kepler-Fludd polemic / Robert S. Westman

The interpretation of natural signs: Cardano's De subtilitate versus Scaliger's Exercitationes / Ian Maclean

Kepler's attitude toward astrology and mysticism / Edward Rosen

Kepler's rejection of numerology / Judith V. Field

Francis bacon's biological ideas: a new manuscript source / Graham Rees

Newton and alchemy / Richard S. Westfall

Witchcraft and popular mentality in Lorraine, 1580-1630 / Robin Briggs

The scientific status of demonology / Stuart Clark

"Reason", "right reason", and "revelation" in mid-seventeenth-century England / Lotte Mulligan.

*Science, Renaissance ; Occultism and science -- History

*Occultism and science ; History ; Science, Renaissance

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BF1429

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 133/.094

The essays in this volume present a collective study of one of the major problems in the recent history of science: To what extent did the occult 'sciences' (alchemy, astrology, numerology, and natural magic) contribute to the scientific revolution of the late Renaissance? These studies of major scientists (Kepler, Bacon, Mersenne, and Newton) and of occultists (Dee, Fludd, and Cardano), complemented by analyses of contemporary official and unofficial studies at Cambridge and Oxford and discussions of the language of science, combine to suggest that hitherto the relationship has been too crudely stated as a movement 'from magic to science'. In fact, two separate mentalities can be traced, the occult and the scientific, each having different assumptions, goals, and methodologies. The contributors call into question many of the received ideas on this topic, showing that the issue has been wrongly defined and based on inadequate historical evidence. They outline new ways of approaching and understanding a situation in which two radically different and, to modern eyes, incompatible ways of describing reality persisted side-by-side until the demise of the occult in the late seventeenth century. Their work, accordingly, sets the whole issue in a new light

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