Springer, 2003. — 270 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 6).
The six essays provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the seventeenth century.
Preface (by Mordechai Feingold).
Mathematics and Modesty in the Society of Jesus: The Problems of Christoph Grienberger (by Michael John Gorman).
The Grounds for Conflict: Grienberger, Grassi, Galileo, and Posterity (by Mordechai Feingold).
Additio illa non videtur edenda: Giuseppe Biancani, Reader of Galileo in an Unedited Censored Text (by Francesco Paolo Ceglia).
Two Jesuit Responses to Galileo’s Science of Motion: Honore Fabri and Pierre le Cazre (by Carla Rita Palmerino).
Jesuit Mathematical Practice in Portugal, 1540–1759 (by Henrique Leitão).
The Celestial Pilgrimages of Valentin Stansel (1621–1705), Jesuit Astronomer and Missionary in Brazil (by Carlos Ziller Camenietzki).