Title

Geo-Heliocentric Controversies

Description

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 Antão, 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.

Subject

thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History | Martianus Capella | College of Saint Anthony | Confessionalisation of science | Astronomy | Cosmology | Tycho Brahe | Colégio de Santo Antão | Giovanni Paolo Lembo | Cristoforo Borri | Simon Fallon | Ignace Stafford | Copernicanism | Johann Chrysostomus Gall | Portugal | John Rishton

Creator

Miguel Carolino, Luís

Publisher

Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari

Date

2023

Identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-886-969-661-9

Type

Text

Format

PDF

Language

en

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134451

Relation

Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World 34

Rights

CC BY 4.0

Educational Level

Higher education | research

Interactivity Type

Expositive