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Geo-Heliocentric Controversies

The Jesuits, Tycho Brahe, and the Confessionalisation of Science in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon

Luís Miguel Carolino    ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal    

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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.

Published
March 22, 2023
Accepted
Sept. 1, 2022
Submitted
March 23, 2022
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-886-969-662-6
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-886-969-661-9
Number of pages
170
Dimensions
17x25.5 cm
Copyright: © 2023 Luís Miguel Carolino. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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