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Marcus Hellyer - Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Moder - 9780268030711 - V9780268030711
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Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Moder

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Description for Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Moder Hardcover. With their universities and colleges, the Jesuits held a monopoly over higher education in Catholic Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries. Using previously untapped sources, Marcus Hellyer traces the development of science instruction at these institutions over a period stretching from the Counter-Reformation to the height of the Enlightenment. Num Pages: 392 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC7; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 757.

With their dozens of universities and colleges, the Jesuits held a monopoly over higher education in Catholic Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using rich, previously untapped sources, Marcus Hellyer traces the development of science instruction at these institutions over a period stretching from the Counter-Reformation to the height of the Enlightenment. He argues that the Scientific Revolution was not an all-or-nothing affair; Jesuit professors enthusiastically adopted particular elements, such as experimental natural philosophy, while doggedly rejecting others, such as mechanical theories of matter. Hellyer's examination of the Jesuit colleges over a span of two centuries, from the late ... Read more

Catholic Physics also explores the fascinating interaction between Jesuit natural philosophy and theology, which, though marked by constant tension, was also quite fruitful. For example, the censorship of natural philosophy by the Jesuit hierarchy in Rome was a negotiated process in which Jesuit professors accepted the necessity of censorship, yet constantly sought to circumvent regulations imposed on them by teaching controversial questions such as Copernican cosmology. After the Galileo affair, jesuit physics professors made sure they declared that heliocentrism was wrong, but they also taught their students the advantages it held over the rival cosmology sanctioned by the Catholic Church.

By investigating the neglected yet influential Jesuit colleges of early modern Germany, Hellyer brings new sources and insight to the field of history of science. His pioneering book will be welcomed not only by historians but by those engaged in the important and ongoing debate between science and religion.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268030711
SKU
V9780268030711
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About Marcus Hellyer
Marcus Hellyer received his Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a senior research officer at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia.

Reviews for Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Moder
". . . it will come as no surprise to read Marcus Hellyer's lucid, learned, judicious account of Jesuit universities and colleges in the German Assistancy, in which their teachers figure not as backward or duplicitous (in feigning not to accept Copernicianism, for instance), but as educators who were phenomenally successful at dominating the universities and colleges of Catholic Germany ... Read more

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