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Author | : Agustín Udías |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-09-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3319083651 |
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This book presents a comprehensive history of the many contributions the Jesuits made to science from their founding to the present. It also links the Jesuits dedication to science with their specific spirituality which tries to find God in all things. The book begins with Christopher Clavius, professor of mathematics in the Roman College between 1567 and 1595, the initiator of this tradition. It covers Jesuits scientific contributions in mathematics, astronomy, physics and cartography up until the suppression of the order by the Pope in 1773. Next, the book details the scientific work the Jesuits pursued after their restoration in 1814. It examines the establishment of a network of observatories throughout the world; details contributions made to the study of tropical hurricanes, earthquakes and terrestrial magnetism and examines such important figures as Angelo Secchi, Stephen J. Perry, James B. Macelwane and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. From their founding to the present, Jesuits have trodden an uncommon path to the frontiers where the Christian message is not yet known. Jesuits’ work in science is also an interesting chapter in the general problem of the relation between science and religion. This book provides readers with a complete portrait of the Jesuit scientific tradition. Its engaging story will appeal to those with an interest in the history of science, the history of the relations between science and religion and the history of Jesuits.
Author | : Agustín Udías |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2019-05-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004394907 |
Download Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology in a worldwide network of universities, secondary schools and observatories.
Author | : Andres I. Prieto |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-03-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826517463 |
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The first scientists of the New World
Author | : Francisco Malta Romeiras |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Life science |
ISBN | : 9789004382350 |
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Jesuit Science and Education: A Brief History -- The Pombaline Expulsion and the Building of Anti-Jesuitism -- Carlos Rademaker and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in -- Portugal -- For the Greater Credibility: Science and Education in Modern Portugal -- The Republican Exile and the Confiscation of the Natural History Collections -- The Journal Brotéria, the Book of Nature, and the Greater Glory of God -- The Journal Brotéria: Vulgarização científica and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine -- Taxonomy, Cytogenetics, and Plant Breeding in the Early Years of Estado Novo -- New Lenses to Read the Book of Nature: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, and Bioethics.
Author | : Mark A. Waddell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317111095 |
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Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century. The search for hidden causes lay at the heart of the early modern study of nature, and included phenomena such as the activity of the magnet, the marvelous powers ascribed to certain animals and plants, and the hidden, destructive forces churning in the depths of the Earth. While this was a project embraced by most early modern naturalists, however, the book demonstrates that the Jesuits were uniquely suited to the study of nature’s hidden secrets because of the complex methods of contemplation and meditation enshrined at the core of their spirituality. Divided into six chapters, the work documents how particular Jesuits sought to reveal and expose nature’s myriad secrets through an innovative blending of technology, imagery, and experiment. Moving beyond the conventional Aristotelianism mandated by the Society of Jesus, they set forth a vision of the world that made manifest the works of God as Creator, no matter how deeply hidden those works were. The book thus not only presents a narrative that challenges present-day assumptions about the role played by Catholic religious communities in the formation of modern science, but also captures the exuberance and inventiveness of the early modern study of nature.
Author | : M. Feingold |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401703612 |
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This volume makes an important contribution toward a nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a greater recognition of their contribution to 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 17th century.
Author | : Ileana Chinnici |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9004387331 |
Download Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) and his important contributions to the development of many sciences, paying special attention to his studies in early astrophysics.
Author | : Florence C. Hsia |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-04-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226355616 |
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Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land develops a genealogy of Jesuit conceptions of scientific life within the Chinese mission field from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Analyzing the printed record of their endeavors in natural philosophy and mathematics, Hsia identifies three models of the missionary man of science by their genres of writing: mission history, travelogue, and academic collection. Drawing on the history of early modern Europe’s scientific, religious, and print culture, she uses the elaboration and reception of these scientific personae to construct the first collective biography of the Jesuit missionary-scientist’s many incarnations in late imperial China.
Author | : Agustin UDIAS |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9401703493 |
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Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.
Author | : Qiong Zhang |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2015-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004284389 |
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In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"