Causality and Scientific Explanation: Medieval and Early Classical Science (vol. 1)

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p. 23 (PDF pp. 72-4) quoted in p. 311 (PDF p. 5) of Cessario, Romanus. [“Sacramental Causality: *Da Capo!*](https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Zotero/storage/8L8TG9DI/Cessario%20-%202013%20-%20Sacramental%20Causality%20Da%20capo!.pdf)” *Nova et Vetera (English Edition)* 11, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 307–16:> Causality was never completely relinquished as a source of scientific explanation from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century, although many were dissatisfied with the causes that had been proposed by their predecessors and in their place sought to expound “true causes” of physical phenomena. Each successive formulation seems to have introduced a slight change in the meaning of causality, however, until finally the notion of causal explanation was rather completely linked with determinism and predictability along quite mechanistic lines.