Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7530807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcus Hellyer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 902-903 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20477096 |
| OpenAlex | W570423323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
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
Context (archaeology · Copernicus · Epistemology · Galileo (satellite navigation · Geography · History of science · Order (exchange · Scientific revolution · Sociology · Wonder · Classics · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
Building a Bridge Between the Observatories of Petersburg and Beijing
Eclecticism and the Technologies of Discernment in Pietist Pedagogy
Fabri’s Discrete Analysis
Methodology and Main Texts
Physica
Introduction
Bad Latin, Bad Manners
Universities and Their Missions in Early Modern Times
Honoré Fabri and the Trojan Horse of Inertia
The Negotiated Geography of the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) and the Role of the Jesuits
Confessional disputes in the republic of letters
Objects, texts and images in the history of science
Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a western European regime for the discovery, development, and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge
Aristotle in New France
British Geography's Republic of Letters
Athanasius Kircher's magical instruments
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |