Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtually every proceeding against the new science. No wonder a consensus emerged that little reason existed for historians to take Jesuit science seriously.Only during the past two decades have scholars begun to question this received view of the Jesuit role in the Scientific Revolution, and this book contributes significantly to that reassessment. Focusing on the institutional setting of Jesuit science, the contributors take a new and broader look at the overall intellectual environment of the Collegio Romano and other Jesuit colleges to see how Jesuit scholars taught and worked, to examine the context of the Jesuit response to the new philosophies, and to chart the Jesuits' scientific contributions. Their conclusions indicate that Jesuit practitioners were indeed instrumental in elevating the status of mathematics and in stressing the importance of experimental science; yet, at the same time, the Jesuits were members of a religious order with a clearly defined apostolic mission. Understanding both the contributions of Jesuit practitioners and the constraints under which they worked helps us to gain a clearer and more complete perspective on the emergence of the scientific worldview.
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Mordechai Feingold is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech.
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One of the more famous "scandals" of eighteenth-century science, and one that persisted for more than 100 years, involved the strange case of Father Maximilian Hell. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second progressus, celestial incorruptibility, impone subactis, celestial corruptibility, demonstrative regressus, magiae naturalis centuriae tres, hard orbs, fonte poco utilizzata, philosophiae peripateticae, fluid heaven, mathematicis disciplinis, disciplinae mathematicae, scienza dei gesuiti, certitudine mathematicarum, geometria practica, chief cosmographer, prohibited opinions, novelle letterarie, cursus philosophicus, cursus mathematicus, celestial location, magna lucis, astronomical hypotheses, ratio studiorum, pars posterior Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Collegio Romano, Roman College, Athanasius Kircher, Society of Jesus, Oeuvres de Descartes, Imperial College, New York, López Piñero, Della Porta, Tycho Brahe, Ugo Baldini, Royal Society, Spanish Netherlands, Henry Oldenburg, Duke August, Los Angeles, Academy of History, Flemish Jesuits, Philosophical Transactions, Christoph Clavius, Colegio Imperial, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Hurtado de Mendoza, Christopher Clavius, Galileo Galilei New!
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- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science by David C. Lindberg on 4 pages
- Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by W. A. Wallace on 4 pages
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- The Church And Galileo (Studies in Science and the Humanities from the Reilly Center for Science Technology and Values) by Ernan McMullin on page 315, and Back Matter
- A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Benjamin A. Elman in Back Matter
- Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion by John Brooke on page 118
- The Jesuits II: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773 (v. 2) by Gauvin Alexander Bailey in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Donald Rutherford in Back Matter
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