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

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2015]

x, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.