Mark A. Waddell is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, with a joint appointment in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. He received his PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Certainty; Chapter 2 Building a Better Ontology; Chapter 3 The Demise of Occult Qualities; Chapter 4 Spectacle, Uncertainty, and the Fallibility of the Eye; Chapter 5 Probabilism, or the World as it Might Be; Chapter 6 The Culture of Marvels, Exposed; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

"In this book Waddell has managed to convey the dilemmas facing seventeenth-century religious trying to reconcile emerging science — the legacy of Aristotle — with the mysteries of nature. He is to be commended on the clarity of his language in presenting the development of thought where there was much obfuscation."- John N. Crossley, Monash University"Through a series of case studies on ontology, demonology, magnetism and the occult, Mark A. Waddell presents a clear and orderd discourse on hidden causes." - Hannah Murphy, Oriel College, Oxford

Mark A. Waddell is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, with a joint appointment in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. He received his PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Certainty; Chapter 2 Building a Better Ontology; Chapter 3 The Demise of Occult Qualities; Chapter 4 Spectacle, Uncertainty, and the Fallibility of the Eye; Chapter 5 Probabilism, or the World as it Might Be; Chapter 6 The Culture of Marvels, Exposed; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

"In this book Waddell has managed to convey the dilemmas facing seventeenth-century religious trying to reconcile emerging science — the legacy of Aristotle — with the mysteries of nature. He is to be commended on the clarity of his language in presenting the development of thought where there was much obfuscation."- John N. Crossley, Monash University"Through a series of case studies on ontology, demonology, magnetism and the occult, Mark A. Waddell presents a clear and orderd discourse on hidden causes." - Hannah Murphy, Oriel College, Oxford

Mark A. Waddell is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, with a joint appointment in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of History. He received his PhD in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the Johns Hopkins University in 2006.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Certainty; Chapter 2 Building a Better Ontology; Chapter 3 The Demise of Occult Qualities; Chapter 4 Spectacle, Uncertainty, and the Fallibility of the Eye; Chapter 5 Probabilism, or the World as it Might Be; Chapter 6 The Culture of Marvels, Exposed; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

"In this book Waddell has managed to convey the dilemmas facing seventeenth-century religious trying to reconcile emerging science — the legacy of Aristotle — with the mysteries of nature. He is to be commended on the clarity of his language in presenting the development of thought where there was much obfuscation."- John N. Crossley, Monash University"Through a series of case studies on ontology, demonology, magnetism and the occult, Mark A. Waddell presents a clear and orderd discourse on hidden causes." - Hannah Murphy, Oriel College, Oxford