Clavius in Nanban Cosmology: Astronomical Data in Pedro Gomez's Compendium catholicae veritatis and Its Sources (2008)
Hiraoka, Ryuji (Author)
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Volume: 47
Pages: 95--107
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Language: Japanese
In 1593-94, a Spanish Jesuit Pedro Gomez completed his tripartite textbook for use by students preparing for the priesthood at Jesuit colleges in Japan. Its first part, De sphara, is well known as the first full scale presentation of Western cosmology in Japan. However, it has rarely been noted that its third part, which treats theology, also contains such technical astronomical data as the dimension of the heavens. Comparison of this data with those seen in astronomy books in contemporary Europe has shown that some of the numerical values in fact correspond to teh famous Jesuit mathematicion Cristoph Clavius, whose influence on De sphaera has alredy been indicated. This paper, while providing a modern Japanese translation of the related chapter in Compendium, first investigages the derivation of data and examines whether it influenced similiar data seen in Kenkon Bensetsu and its variant copy Tennmon Biyou both composed in the mid 17th century.
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