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dc.identifier	ECF_book_557
dc.creator	Carolino Luís Miguel
dc.title	Geo-Heliocentric Controversies. The Jesuits, Tycho Brahe, and the Confessionalisation of Science in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.relation.ispartof	Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-886-969-661-9
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-03-22
dc.dateAccepted	2022-09-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-03-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-886-969-662-6/
dc.identifier.issn	2724-1394
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-1572
dc.identifier.isbn	978-886-969-662-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-886-969-661-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	College of Saint Anthony
dc.subject	Colégio de Santo Antão
dc.subject	Confessionalisation of science
dc.subject	Copernicanism
dc.subject	Cosmology
dc.subject	Cristoforo Borri
dc.subject	Giovanni Paolo Lembo
dc.subject	Ignace Stafford
dc.subject	Johann Chrysostomus Gall
dc.subject	John Rishton
dc.subject	Martianus Capella
dc.subject	Portugal
dc.subject	Simon Fallon
dc.subject	Tycho Brahe

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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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abstract

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

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-886-969-662-6

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-886-969-661-9

Number of pages

170

Dimensions

17x25.5 cm

Keywords

Portugal • Cosmology • Copernicanism • Cristoforo Borri • Confessionalisation of science • Colégio de Santo Antão • John Rishton • Johann Chrysostomus Gall • Tycho Brahe • Martianus Capella • College of Saint Anthony • Giovanni Paolo Lembo • Astronomy • Ignace Stafford • Simon Fallon

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