Jesuit science and the republic of letters /

A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview. 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, w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Feingold, Mordechai
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Series:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Subjects:
Jesuits > History.
Jesuits
Religion and science.
Religion et sciences.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Religion and science
Jezuïeten.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Geloof en wetenschap.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Jesuits / Mordechai Feingold
  • The Academy of Mathematics of the Collegio Romano from 1553 to 1612 / Ugo Baldini
  • Galileo's Jesuit connections and their influence on his science / William A. Wallace
  • The partial transformation of medieval cosmology by Jesuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Edward Grant
  • Descartes and the Jesuits / Roger Ariew
  • Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the science of his time / Alfredo Dinis
  • Scientific spectacle in baroque Rome / Paula Findlen
  • Pious ambition / Martha Baldwin
  • Tradition and scientific change in early modern Spain / Víctor Navarro
  • Jesuit science in the Spanish Netherlands / G.H.W. Vanpaemel
  • The Storia Letteraria D'Italia and the rehabilitation of Jesuit science / Brendan Dooley.

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