Jesuits and the Knowledge of Nature
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francisco Malta Romeiras
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004382350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesuit 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: Miguel de Asúa
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9004256776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile. Based on many so far unexplored manuscripts and a vast corpus of primary sources, the book argues the existence of a tradition of research on nature consistent with universal Jesuit science and at the same time original in its articulation of Western learning and aboriginal lore on nature.
Author: Mark A. Waddell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1317111095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesuit 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: Francisco Malta Romeiras
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9004382364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858.
Author: Agustín Udías
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-27
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9004394907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: Miguel De Asa
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2014-06
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789004256767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Science in the Vanished Arcadia', Miguel de Asua provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile.
Author: Ines G. Županov
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 1153
ISBN-13: 0190639636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Author: Paula Findlen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0429867921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmpires of Knowledge charts the emergence of different kinds of scientific networks – local and long-distance, informal and institutional, religious and secular – as one of the important phenomena of the early modern world. It seeks to answer questions about what role these networks played in making knowledge, how information traveled, how it was transformed by travel, and who the brokers of this world were. Bringing together an international group of historians of science and medicine, this book looks at the changing relationship between knowledge and community in the early modern period through case studies connecting Europe, Asia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. It explores a landscape of understanding (and misunderstanding) nature through examinations of well-known intelligencers such as overseas missions, trading companies, and empires while incorporating more recent scholarship on the many less prominent go-betweens, such as translators and local experts, which made these networks of knowledge vibrant and truly global institutions. Empires of Knowledge is the perfect introduction to the global history of early modern science and medicine.
Author: Cristiano Casalini
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9004394419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity Cristiano Casalini collects eighteen contributions by renowned specialists to track the existence and distinctiveness of Jesuit philosophy during the first century since the inception of the order.