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Geo-Heliocentric Controversies : the Jesuits, Tycho Brahe, and the confessionalisation of science in Seventeenth-century Lisbon / Luís Miguel Carolino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carolino, Luís Miguel, author.
- Series:
- Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World Series
- Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World, 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
- Brahe, Tycho.
- Humanities--Philosophy.
- Humanities.
- Astronomy--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (170 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fondazione UniversitaÌ Ca' Foscari 2023
- Venezia : Fondazione Ca' Foscari, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a book about the confessionalisation of science in the early modern period. It discusses the cosmological controversies raised by the appropriation of Tycho Brahe's astronomical theories within the Jesuit milieu, by focusing on the international community of Jesuit mathematicians who taught astronomy at the College of Santo Anta~o, Lisbon, between 1615 and 1652. The author argues that the cultural politics of the Counter-Reformation Church curbed the reception of Tycho Brahe in this community. Despite supporting the Tychonic geo-heliocentric system and exploring cosmological ideas produced in Tycho's Protestant milieu, the Jesuits active in Lisbon strove to confine the authority of the Lutheran astronomer to the domain of mathematics. Philosophy was expected to remain the realm of Catholic orthodoxy.
- Contents:
- Intro
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Clavius's Astronomical Legacy in Lisbon
- The Class on the Sphere
- 3 The Celestial Novelties
- 4 The Jesuit Rejection
- 5 The Geo-Heliocentric Model
- 6 The Jesuit Censorship
- 7 The Virtues of the Tychonic
- 8 Tycho Brahe Catholised
- 9 Jesuit Tychonic Cosmology
- 10 Philosophers' Reception
- 11 The Final Boundary.
- 12 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Pagina vuota.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9788869696619
- 8869696618
- OCLC:
- 1611787114
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