RT Article
T1 Catolicismo e devoção nos primeiros livros de Física em português, 1615-1645
JF Lusitania sacra
VO 49
SP 59
OP 81
A1 Castel-Branco, Nuno
LA Portuguese
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1880640201
AB 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 new scientific ideas in the Portuguese empire. But 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 manuscripts, this paper also suggests that the Portuguese religious context was one of the driving forces of science in Portugal, due to a type of material piety where encounters with the divine happened through the most material things, including new technologies.
K1 Ciência
K1 Galileu
K1 História da Ciência
K1 Piedade material
K1 Portugal
K1 Religião
DO 10.34632/lusitaniasacra.2024.11855