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Author : Mordechai Feingold
language : en
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Release Date : 2003
Jesuit Science And The Republic Of Letters written by Mordechai Feingold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
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, 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.
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Author : Mordechai Feingold
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003
Jesuit Science And The Republic Of Letters written by Mordechai Feingold and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.
Maximilian Hell 1720 92 And The Ends Of Jesuit Science In Enlightenment Europe
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Author : Per Pippin Aspaas
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Maximilian Hell 1720 92 And The Ends Of Jesuit Science In Enlightenment Europe written by Per Pippin Aspaas and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Religion categories.
The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.
Transforming The Republic Of Letters
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Author : April Shelford
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2007
Transforming The Republic Of Letters written by April Shelford and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic had patriotic citizens, but no army; it had its own language, but no frontiers. From its birth during theRenaissance, the Republic of Letters long remained a small and close-knit elite community, linked by international networks of correspondence, sharing an erudite neo-Latin culture. In the late seventeenth century, however, it confronted fundamental challenges that influenced its transition to the more public, inclusive, and vernacular discourse of the Enlightenment. Transforming the Republic of Letters is a cultural and intellectual history that chronicles this transition to "modernity" from the perspective of the internationally renowned scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721). Under Shelford's direction, Huet guides us into the intensely social intellectual worldof salons, scientific academies, and literary academies, while his articulate critiques illumine a combative world of Cartesians versus anti-Cartesians, ancients versus moderns, Jesuits versus Jansenists, and salonnières versus humanist scholars. Transforming the Republic of Letters raises questions of critical importance in Huet's era, and our own, about defining, sharing, and controlling access to knowledge. April G. Shelford is Assistant Professor in the History Department at American University, Washington, D.C.
Maximilian Hell 1720 92 And The Ends Of Jesuit Science In Enlightenment Europe
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Author : Per Pippin Aspaas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Maximilian Hell 1720 92 And The Ends Of Jesuit Science In Enlightenment Europe written by Per Pippin Aspaas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Astronomers categories.
The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.
Reassembling The Republic Of Letters In The Digital Age
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Author : Howard Hotson
language : en
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Release Date : 2019
Reassembling The Republic Of Letters In The Digital Age written by Howard Hotson and has been published by Göttingen University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Education categories.
Between 1500 and 1800, the rapid evolution of postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across Europe like never before. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the ‘respublica litteraria’, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era’s intellectual breakthroughs, formative of many modern values and institutions, and a potential cornerstone of a transnational level of European identity. Ironically, the exchange of letters which created this community also dispersed the documentation required to study it, posing enormous difficulties for historians of the subject ever since. To reassemble that scattered material and chart the history of that imagined community, we need a revolution in digital communications. Between 2014 and 2018, an EU networking grant assembled an interdisciplinary community of over 200 experts from 33 different countries and many different fields for four years of structured discussion. The aim was to envisage transnational digital infrastructure for facilitating the radically multilateral collaboration needed to reassemble this scattered documentation and to support a new generation of scholarly work and public dissemination. The framework emerging from those discussions – potentially applicable also to other forms of intellectual, cultural and economic exchange in other periods and regions – is documented in this book.
The Republic Of Letters
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Author : Marc Fumaroli
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-18
The Republic Of Letters written by Marc Fumaroli and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-18 with History categories.
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life--and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought-provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.
News From The Republick Of Letters
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Author : Esther Mijers
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-05-03
News From The Republick Of Letters written by Esther Mijers and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-03 with History categories.
This book is the first full-length study of Scots in the United Provinces between 1650 and 1750, showing that the Scottish-Dutch relationship provided the infrastructure, which allowed Scotland to become part of the Republic of Letters.
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire
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Author : Andrew Goss
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-05
The Routledge Handbook Of Science And Empire written by Andrew Goss and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-05 with Science categories.
The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides an analytical review essay of the field, while also providing an overview of the topic. There is now a rich literature developed by historians of science as well as scholars of empire demonstrating the numerous ways science and empire grew together, especially between 1600 and 1960.
Science In The Vanished Arcadia
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Author : Miguel de Asúa
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-06-05
Science In The Vanished Arcadia written by Miguel de Asúa and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-05 with Science categories.
In 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.