The New Science and Jesuit Science Seventeenth Century Perspectives
"One cannot talk about mathematics in the 16th and 17th centuries without seeing a Jesuit at every corner," George Sarton observed in 1940. * Sarton, of course, was not the first to recognize the disproportionate representation of members of the Society of Jesus in the scientific enterpris...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Mathematics and Modesty in the Society of Jesus: The Problems of Christoph Grienberger
- The Grounds for Conflict: Grienberger, Grassi, Galileo, and Posterity
- Additio illa non videtur edenda: Giuseppe Biancani, Reader of Galileo in an Unedited Censored Text
- Two Jesuit Responses to Galileo’s Science of Motion: Honoré Fabri and Pierre Le Cazre
- Jesuit Mathematical Practice in Portugal, 1540–1759
- The Celestial Pilgrimages of Valentin Stansel (1621–1705), Jesuit Astronomer and Missionary in Brazil