The Scientific Counter-Revolution : The Jesuits and the Invention of Modern Science (Paperback)

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