LEADER 03357oam 2200469I 450 001 9910795307903321 005 20230809235742.0 010 $a90-04-38733-1 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004387331 035 $a(CKB)4970000000170188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5842503 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004387331 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000170188 100 $a20170829d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDecoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist $fIleana Chinnici 210 1$aLeiden, $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (387 pages) 225 0 $aJesuit Studies ;$vv. 16 311 $a90-04-38729-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tCopyright Page -- $tForeword -- $tForeword /$rNichi D?Amico -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustrations -- $tAbbreviations -- $tA Century in Ferment -- $tSecchi?s Early Life and Education: From Childhood to the Priesthood -- $tThe Experience of Exile: A Tragic Opportunity -- $tEstablishing the New Collegio Romano Observatory: An Observatory for ?Physical Astronomy? -- $tAdvisor to the Papal States: Science in the Service of the Public -- $tA Rising International Career: Travels, Achievements, and Recognition -- $tContributions to Astrophysics and other Sciences -- $tA Crucial Political Change: New Risks and Missed Opportunities -- $tA Society for a New Astronomy: Building a Network for Spectroscopic Research -- $tA Controversial Personality: Secchi and the Scientific Debates of His Time -- $tSecchi?s Final Years: Uncertainty and Illness -- $tSecchi?s Scientific Legacy -- $tBack Matter -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex. 330 $aIn Decoding the Stars , Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878). In addition to providing an invaluable account of Secchi?s life and work?something that has been sorely lacking in the English-language scholarship?this biography will be especially stimulating for those interested in the evolution of astrophysics as a discipline from the nineteenth century onward. Despite his eclecticism, reminiscent of the natural philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Secchi was in many ways a very modern scientist: open to innovation and cooperation, and a promoter of popularization and citizen science. Secchi also appears fully inserted in the cultural context of his time: he participated in philosophical and scientific debates, spread new theories and ideas, but also suffered the consequences of political events that marked those years and impacted on his life and activities. 410 0$aJesuit Studies$v16. 606 $aAstronomers$zItaly$xBiography 606 $aAstronomy$yHistory$y19th century 606 $aAstrophysics$yHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAstronomers$xBiography. 615 0$aAstronomy 615 0$aAstrophysics 676 $a520.92 700 $aChinnici$b Ileana$01033459 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795307903321 996 $aDecoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist$93822414 997 $aUNINA