Decoding the stars : a biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and scientist /
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Author / Creator: | Chinnici, Ileana, author. |
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019. |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Jesuit studies: modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 16 |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12647910 |
ISBN: | 9004387331 9789004387331 9789004387294 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 08, 2019). |
Summary: | In Decoding the Stars , Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi's life and work-something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship-this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science. Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities. |
Other form: | Print version: Chinnici, Ileana, author. Decoding the stars Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004387294 |
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