Réflexions sur la construction d'un champ disciplinaire: les mathématiques dans l'institution jésuite à la Renaissance

• Autores: Antonella Romano
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 40, Nº. 3, 2004, págs. 245-259
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of the paper is to provide an analysis of the emergence of mathematics as a scholarly discipline, through the study of the most important agent of education, in the early modern Catholic world: the Society of Jesus. The study of the various sources offered by the institution produces a confrontation between the elaboration of a normative text and local practices, and brings to light the different components of such a construction: a social and political context, which allows the expression of local demands for mathematics; a precise intellectual context, within which a new epistemology of science is developing (the importance is noted of Clavius, the first teacher of mathematics at the Collegio Romano, who defended the new epistemology);and the constitution of a group of professors able to teach it. Through the remarkable documentation left by the Jesuit institution, the enquiry can be developed at different scales (from the local to the universal) and permitting consideration of the �scientific revolution� in terms of both a social and an intellectual process.