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From Paracelsus to Newton

Hardcover • 1982 • English

From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic & the Making of Modern Science

By Charles Webster

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Persistence into the later seventeenth century of the sense of living in the last age of the world, with the fear of divine judgement and the expectation that the efforts of the godly would be rewarded by the grant of earthy paradise, supplied a continuing incentive to and a legitimation of engagement in experimental science. This context helped to preserve the idea of the scientist as a magus figure, even though natural magic had ceased to be completely dominant form of scientific expression. I...Show more

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ISBN

9780760700891

Published year

1982

Language

English

Original title

From Paracelsus to Newton

Format

Hardcover

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