Confessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Optics

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dc.contributor.advisorVermij, Rienk
dc.contributor.authorPurkaple, Brent
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBarker, Peter
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCrowther, Kathleen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLivesey, Steven
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMagruder, Kerry
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWickersham, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T17:49:28Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T17:49:28Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.date.manuscript2022-04
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the investigation and explanation of optics among prominent members of the Society of Jesus during the early modern period. In doing so it aims to explain why it was that optics became one of the more important scientific subjects among the members of the Order. In addition to this it aims to explain how it was that their identity as members of the Order shaped their explanation of optics at a time when there was no agreed upon meaning of optics. As argued, this interaction between Jesuit identity and optical theory may best be understood as an act of confessionalization. The benefit of this categorization is that it allows for a complex analysis of optics among the Society of Jesus which avoids any essential identification of the relationship between science and religion. This dissertation, then, not only addresses why optics among the Jesuits should be understood as confessionalized, but also how the category of confessionalization may provide a path through the complex dynamics of early modern science and religion.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/335379
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectHistory of Science.en_US
dc.subjectThe Society of Jesusen_US
dc.subjectHistory of Opticsen_US
dc.subjectEarly Modern Confessionalizationen_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.titleConfessionalized Optics: The Society of Jesus and Early Modern Opticsen_US
ou.groupDodge Family College of Arts and Sciences::Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicineen_US

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