Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (XVIII, 356 Pp.)
Language: English
Published by Brill, 2019
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Brill. HARDCOVER. 2019. 9789004387294 :Subject: Science | Space Science | Astronomy .
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- Title
- Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (XVIII, 356 Pp.)
- Author
- Chinnici, Ileana
- Publisher
- Brill
- Publication year
- 2019
- Binding
- HARDCOVER
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9004387293
- ISBN 13
- 9789004387294
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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