Book ID: CBB547940053

Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (2019)

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Chinnici, Ileana (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 388
Language: English

Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Secchi, Angelo
Lequeux, James
Chinnici, Ileana
Adamo, Angelo
Petrovay, Kristóf
Altamore, Aldo
Concepts
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Science and religion
Biographies
Science and culture
Physics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Italy
Rome (Italy)
India
Middle and Near East
Madagascar
Greece
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Wittwer
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