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Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks

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Authors:
  1. Michael Elazar

    1. History of Science, Max Planck Institute for the, Berlin, Germany

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  • Cohen Institute prize winner - daring and highly original. A new interpretation of a Jesuit physical theory hitherto deemed dogmatic and reactionary
  • A description how Scientific Revolution ideas settled in the lion’s den of Catholic education
  • A depiction of an Aristotelian physical framework incorporating “new science” cornerstones

Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 288)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Fabri And The Eucharist

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. The Twofold Mystery of the Eucharist

      • Michael Elazar
      Pages 191-195

    3. De accidente: Impetus and the Accidents Problem

      • Michael Elazar
      Pages 197-210

    4. Physica: Solution of the Real Presence Problem

      • Michael Elazar
      Pages 211-229

  2. Back Matter

    Pages 231-259
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This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of “impetus” in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo’s law of fall and Descartes’ principle of inertia. This account of Fabri’s theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lion’s den of Catholic education.

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  • History of Science, Max Planck Institute for the, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Elazar

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