Carolino Luís Miguel
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Departamento de História / CIES-IUL, Portugal.
Br J Hist Sci. 2023 May 2:1-22. doi: 10.1017/S0007087423000092.
This article explores the complex process of integrating Tycho Brahe's theories into the Jesuit intellectual framework through focusing on the international community of professors who taught mathematics at the College of Saint Anthony (Colégio de Santo Antão), Lisbon, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Historians have conceived the reception of the Tychonic system as a straightforward process motivated by the developments of early modern astronomy. Nevertheless, this paper argues that the cultural politics of the Counter-Reformation Church curbed the reception of Tycho Brahe within the Jesuit milieu. Despite supporting the Tychonic geo-heliocentric system, which they explicitly conceived of as a 'compromise' between the ancient Ptolemy and the modern Copernicus, and making recourse to some of the cosmological ideas produced in Tycho's Protestant milieu, the Jesuits strove to confine the authority of the Lutheran astronomer to the domain of mathematics. Philosophy was expected to remain the realm of Catholic orthodoxy. Thus, while Tycho Brahe entered the pantheon of 'Jesuit' authorities, he nonetheless was not granted the absolute status of intellectual authority. This case demonstrates how the impact of confessionalization reached well beyond the formal processes of science censorship.
本文通过聚焦17世纪上半叶在里斯本圣安东尼学院（Colégio de Santo Antão）教授数学的国际教授群体，探讨了将第谷·布拉赫的理论融入耶稣会知识框架的复杂过程。历史学家认为对第谷体系的接受是一个由早期现代天文学发展推动的直接过程。然而，本文认为反宗教改革教会的文化政治抑制了耶稣会环境中对第谷·布拉赫的接受。尽管耶稣会支持第谷的地日心体系，他们明确将其视为古代托勒密和现代哥白尼之间的“妥协”，并借鉴了第谷新教环境中产生的一些宇宙学思想，但他们努力将这位路德派天文学家的权威限制在数学领域。哲学仍应是天主教正统的领域。因此，虽然第谷·布拉赫进入了“耶稣会”权威的万神殿，但他并未被授予知识权威的绝对地位。这个案例表明，教派化的影响远远超出了科学审查的正式程序。
