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Occult qualities

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those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; - so called by the schoolmen.

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But in contrast with Szeemann's interest in the erotic and occult qualities of machinery, Hulten's was more that of a Swedish engineer with a slightly juvenile bent toward the absurd and anarchic.
Man and machine: Daniel Birnbaum on Renzo Piano's Pontus Hulten Study ... by Birnbaum, Daniel / Artforum International
It is this approach that causes her to neglect Gassendi's treatment of occult qualities without explaining the importance of this topic in the programmatic treatises on the mechanical philosophy, such as Gassendi's Syntagma Philosophicum and Descartes's Principles of Philosophy.
Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy by Osler, Margaret J. / Renaissance Quarterly
With this edition of a sixteenth-century treatise on magnetism, previously known only from contemporary references, Monica Ugaglia fills a long-noted lacuna in the history of science, and presents historians with the raw materials for a better understanding of early modern views of occult qualities, experiment, and natural philosophy.
Trattati della Calamita by Seitz, Jonathan / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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