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Mathematical instruction at the Colégio das Artes in Coimbra: Adam Aigenler's " rota astronomica " (1672) (2018)

Golvers, Noël (Author)

Almagest
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-16
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.116016

DOI: 10.1484/J.ALMAGEST.5.116016

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Chinese language Maps; atlases Education Mathematics Arts and humanities 17th century Aigenler, Adam Jesuits (Society of Jesus) Coimbra. Universidade

Two completely different sources report, with some details, on the composition of a ‘rota astronomica’ by Adam Aigenler, SJ, within the context of his teaching mathematics at the Colégio das Artes in Coimbra during the academic year 1672-1673; the original concept consisted of a demonstrational instrument and its description, carved in a copper plate, never used for printing, and an autograph transcription, both apparently lost in the 1860s. Yet, Aigenler’s work resurfaces in an expanded Chinese version, now in the form of a celestial atlas with 14 star maps, printed in Chinese, and referring to its original author under the wrong name *Rigenler; also this is lost in the 1860s. Despite this loss, it remains a rare, interesting example of the didactical methods and tools developed and used both by this Jesuit mathematician (whose work remained so far largely ignored due to wrong catalogue entries [*Rigenler; *Aigenter]), and the Jesuit ‘Indipetae’ in general during their extra-curricular (?) courses at the Colégio das Artes, of which A. Thomas’s almost simultaneous Synopsis Mathematica is another testimony.

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