Abstract
Contents: Preface Animism and empiricism: Copernican physics and the origin of William Gilbert's experimental method Atomism and eschatology: Catholicism and natural philosophy in the Interregnum Occult qualities and the experimental philosophy: active principles in pre-Newtonian matter theory Medicine and pneumatology: Henry More, Richard Baxter and Francis Glisson's Treatise on the Energetic Nature of Substance The matter of souls: medical theory and theology in 17th-century England Henry More versus Robert Boyle: the spirit of nature and the nature of providence Boyle and cosmical qualities Robert Hooke, the incongruous mechanist 'Pray do not ascribe that notion to me': God and Newton's gravity The fragmentation of Renaissance occultism and the decline of magic Index.
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