The scientific counter-revolution : the Jesuits and the invention of modern science /: the Jesuits and the invention of modern science. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- The scientific counter-revolution : the Jesuits and the invention of modern science /: the Jesuits and the invention of modern science. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The scientific counter-revolution : the Jesuits and the invention of modern science
- Further Information:
- Note: Michael John Gorman.
- Authors:
- Gorman, Michael John
- Contents:
- Introduction 1. Establishing Mathematical Authority and the Politics of Christoph Clavius 2. Trusting the Jesuit Mathematicus 3. Grienberger, Mathematics and Modesty in the Collegio Romano 4. The Uses of Correspondence 5. Magnetic Declination and the Problem of Longitude 6. Discipline and Authority 7. Experiment, Expertise and Centralized Authority 8. Theatricality and the Failure of Replication Appendix: Documenting Public Mathematics in the Collegio Romano Bibliography Index.
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 510.1
Jesuits
Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History
Philosophy, Modern
Physics -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350091979
9781350091962 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350091955
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