Research Guides: Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Jesuits

Jesuits

Jesuit ideology & Jesuit science : scientific activity in the Society of Jesus 1540-1773 by Steven Harris
Call Number: BX3706.2 .H379 1989
Legem impone subactis : studi su filosofia e scienza dei Gesuiti in Italia, 1540-1632 by Ugo Baldini
Call Number: BX3738 .B35 1992
Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters by Mordechai Feingold (Editor)
Call Number: BL240.3 .J47 2003
The New Science and Jesuit Science by Mordechai Feingold (Editor)
Call Number: BL245 .N48 2003
The Jesuits II by Steven J. Harris (Editor); Gauvin Alexander Bailey (Editor); John W. O'Malley (Editor); T. Frank Kennedy (Editor)
Call Number: BX3706.2 .J4682 2006
Discipline and Experience by Peter R. Dear
Call Number: Q127.E8 D43 1995
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology by James M. Lattis
Call Number: QB981 .L32 1994
Euclid in China by Peter M. Engelfriet
Call Number: QA31 .E8753 1998
the genesis of the first Chinese translation of Euclid's Elements, books I-VI (Jihe yuanben, Beijing, 1607) and its reception up to 1723
Clavius, une Cle Pour Euclide Au XVIe Siecle by Sabine Rommevaux
Call Number: QA31.E93 R655 2005
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence
Call Number: BV3427.R46 S66 1984
French Jesuits and the mission to China : science, religion, history by Florence C. Hsia
Call Number: BX3746.C5 H85 1999
Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and their scientific missions in late imperial China by Florence C. Hsia
Call Number: BX3746.C5 H852 2009
On Their Own Terms: science in China, 1550-1900 by Benjamin A. Elman
Call Number: Q127.C5 E48 2005

Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher by Paula Findlen (Editor)
Call Number: CT1098.K46 A738 2004
A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incrediblus' by Elizabeth Fletcher; Athanasius Kircher; John Edward Fletcher
Call Number: CT1098.K46 F53 2011
ISBN: 9789004207127
Contains a selection of his unpublished correspondence and an annotated translation of his autobiography
Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum gelerhten Europa seiner Zeit by John Fletcher
Call Number: CT1098.K46 A74 1988

Articles

"Christopher Clavius and the Renaissance of Euclidean Geometry" by Frederick Homann
Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu 52 (1983): 233-246.
“Medical Men and Medicine in the Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher,” by John Fletcher
Revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la médecine, de la pharmacie, et de la technique 56 (1969): 259-77.
"Athanasius Kircher and the Progress of Medicine" by Harry Beal Torrey
Osiris 5 (1938): 246-75.

Exhibition Catalogs

Jesuit science in the age of Galileo : an exhibition of rare books from the History of Science Collection, March 24-July 31, 1986 by William B. Ashworth; Bruce Bradley
Call Number: Z7402 .L5 1986