Occult Scientific Mentalities

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338363
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Scientific Mentalities written by Brian Vickers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-27 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521258791
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Scientific Mentalities written by Brian Vickers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Noakes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107188547
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physics and Psychics written by Richard Noakes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noakes' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Author : Dan Burton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216564
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magic, Mystery, and Science written by Dan Burton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[P.D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless reality—one that cancels out physical disintegration and death—figures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever-present in the space-time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.'" —from Magic, Mystery, and Science The triumph of science would appear to have routed all other explanations of reality. No longer does astrology or alchemy or magic have the power to explain the world to us. Yet at one time each of these systems of belief, like religion, helped shed light on what was dark to our understanding. Nor have the occult arts disappeared. We humans have a need for mystery and a sense of the infinite. Magic, Mystery, and Science presents the occult as a "third stream" of belief, as important to the shaping of Western civilization as Greek rationalism or Judeo-Christianity. The occult seeks explanations in a world that is living and intelligent—quite unlike the one supposed by science. By taking these beliefs seriously, while keeping an eye on science, this book aims to capture some of the power of the occult. Readers will discover that the occult has a long history that reaches back to Babylonia and ancient Egypt. It proceeds alongside, and frequently mingles with, religion and science. From the Egyptian Book of the Dead to New Age beliefs, from Plato to Adolf Hitler, occult ways of knowing have been used—and hideously abused—to explain a world that still tempts us with the knowledge of its dark secrets.

Author : Wayne Shumaker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340914
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance written by Wayne Shumaker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only short and acceptable summary and analysis of the five Renaissance occult sciences." - Times Literary Supplement

Author : Franz Hartmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Science in Medicine written by Franz Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107276845
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage written by Mary Floyd-Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.

Author : L. H. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780932785978
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Occult Science Or Hidden Forces written by L. H. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1955-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Loomis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book Seven Essays on the Subject of Practical Occultism written by Ernest Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787312923
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occult Sciences in Atlantis written by Lewis Spence and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1976-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author ransacked every possible source of productive evidence on the subject. for more than a generation at least, occult society as a whole has awaited an authoritative work on the subject of the arcane science known as Atlantis. Contents: Religio.