Document type
Books
Title
Jesuits and the Book of Nature. Science and Education in Modern Portugal
Participants in the publication
Francisco Malta Romeiras (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CIUHCT
Summary
Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858. As well as promoting an education grounded on an “alliance between religion and science,” the Portuguese Jesuits founded a scientific journal that played a significant role in the consolidation of taxonomy, plant breeding, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. In this book, Francisco Malta Romeiras argues that the priority the Jesuits placed on the teaching and practice of science was not only a way of continuing a centennial tradition but should also be seen as response to the adverse anticlerical milieu in which the restoration of the Society of Jesus took place.
Date of Publication
2019-09-16
Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
Publication Identifiers
ISBN - 9789004382350
Address
Leiden
Publisher
Brill
Collection
Jesuit Studies
Tags
History of Science
Science and Education
Jesuit Studies