Series | Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World
Volume 3 | Monograph | Geo-Heliocentric Controversies

Geo-Heliocentric Controversies

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

open access | peer reviewed

Luís Miguel Carolino - ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal - email

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.

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

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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1 • Introduction
March 22, 2023

2 • Clavius’s Astronomical Legacy in Lisbon
The Class on the Sphere
March 22, 2023

3 • The Celestial Novelties
March 22, 2023

4 • The Jesuit Rejection of Copernicanism
March 22, 2023

5 • The Geo-Heliocentric Model of Capellan Inspiration
March 22, 2023

6 • The Jesuit Censorship of Tycho Brahe
March 22, 2023

7 • The Virtues of the Tychonic ‘Geo-Heliocentric Compromise’
March 22, 2023

8 • Tycho Brahe Catholised
March 22, 2023

9 • Jesuit Tychonic Cosmology
March 22, 2023

10 • Philosophers’ Reception of the Tychonic Cosmology
March 22, 2023

11 • The Final Boundary. The Ecclesiastic Ban on Copernicanism
March 22, 2023

12 • Concluding Remarks
March 22, 2023

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dc.creator	Carolino Luís Miguel
dc.title	Geo-Heliocentric Controversies. The Jesuits, Tycho Brahe, and the Confessionalisation of Science in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon
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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.
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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
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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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