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- Title
Catolicismo e devoção nos primeiros livros de Física em português, 1615-1645.
- Authors
CASTEL-BRANCO, NUNO
- Abstract
In 1590, the Society of Jesus started a mathematics course in Lisbon where subjects now associated with physics and astronomy were taught. In this famous course, many teachers were Jesuits trained outside the country who then went on to their missions in the East. For this reason, historians have associated this academy of mathematics with the spread of new scientific ideas in the Portuguese empire. In this article, I show that this course also had a huge impact in continental Portugal. In short, it was at the origin of the first books of physics written in Portuguese, where new ideas such as the vacuum, the heliocentric model, and animal mechanics were taught quite early. Through a close reading of this course's manuscripts, this paper also suggests that the Portuguese religious context was one of the driving forces of science in Portugal, due to a material piety where encounters with the divine happened through the most material things, including new technologies.
- Subjects
CATHOLIC Church; DEVOTION; JESUITS; ASTRONOMY; MATHEMATICS; MANUSCRIPTS
- Publication
Lusitania Sacra, 2024, Issue 49, p59
- ISSN
0076-1508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.34632/lusitaniasacra.2024.11855