The New Science and Jesuit Science: Seventeenth Century Perspectives
By: edited by Mordechai Feingold
Series: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology -- 6; Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology -- 6
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789048161157; 9789401703611
Subjects: Philosophy, modern; Humanities; Religion (General); History
Description: Until recently, the contribution of the Society of Jesus to the Scientific Revolution remained sketchy at best, as the perception of the Jesuits as plodding pedagogues and obscurantists sanctioned the disregard of their activities. The present volume makes an important contribution toward a more nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a far greater recognition of their contribution to the two poles of modern science: the mathematization of natural philosophy and experimental science. The six essays provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century, as well as a factor in the quandary faced by practitioners in their pursuit of science and in their ability to make their research public.
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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Mathematics and Modesty in the Society of Jesus: The Problems of Christoph Grienberger; title: The Grounds for Conflict: Grienberger, Grassi, Galileo, and posterity; title: Giuseppe Biancani, reader of Galileo on an unedited censored text; title: Two Jesuit Responses to Galileo's Science of Motion: Honoré Fabri and Pierre Le Cazre; title: Jesuit Mathematical Practice in Portugal, 1540-1759; title: The Celestial Pilgrimages of Valentin Stansel (1621-1705), Jesuit Astronomer and Missionary in Brazil.