Very selective bibliography for Clavius
For a more complete bibliography
consult Lattis,
Between Copernicus and Galileo
(below).
Baldini, Ugo. "Christoph Clavius and the Scientific Scene in
Rome." In Gregorian Reform of the Calendar, 137-
69. In George V. Coyne, M. A. Hoskin, O. Pedersen, eds.
Gregorian Reform of the Calendar: Proceedings of the
Vatican Conference to Commemorate its 400th Anniversary,
1582-1982. Città del Vaticano: Pontificia
Academia Scientiarum, Specola Vaticana, 1983.
---. Legem impone subactis: Studi su filosofia e scienza
dei Gesuiti in Italia, 1540-1632. Università
degli studi "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti,
Collana dell'istituto di filosofia. Nuova Serie 3.
Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 1992.
---. "La Nova del 1604 e i Matematici e Filosofi del Collegio
Romano: Note su un Testo Inedito." Annali
dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di
Firenze 6 (1981) fasc. 2: 63-98.
Blackwell, Richard J. Galileo, Bellarmine, and the
Bible. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1991.
Casanovas, Juan. "L'Astronomia nel Collegio Romano nella prima
metà del seicento." Giornale di
Astronomia 10 (1984): 149-55.
Galilei, Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius or The Sidereal
Messenger. Translated and edited by Albert Van Helden.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Harris, Steven. "Transposing the Merton Thesis: Apostolic
Spirituality and the Establishment of the Jesuit Scientific
Tradition." Science in Context 3 (1989): 29-65.
Homann, Frederick A. "Christopher Clavius and the Renaissance of
Euclidean Geometry." Archivum Historicum Societatis
Iesu. 52 (1983): 233-46.
Jardine, Nicholas. "The Forging of Modern Realism: Clavius and
Kepler against the Sceptics." Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science 10 (1979): 141-73.
Knobloch, Eberhard. "Christoph Clavius--Ein Astronom zwischen
Antike und Kopernikus." In Vorträge des ersten
Symposions des Bamberger Arbeitskreises "Antike
Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption" (AKAN), 113-40.
Klause Döring and Georg Wöhrle eds. Wiesbaden:
Otto Harrassowitz, 1990.
---. "Christoph Clavius. Ein Namen- und Schriftenverzeichnis zu
seinen Opera mathematica." Bolletino di
Storia delle Scienze Mathematiche 10 (1990): 135-89.
Lattis, James M. Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph
Clavius and the Collapse of Ptolemaic Cosmology.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
---. "Homocentrics, Eccentrics, and Clavius's Refutation of
Fracastoro." Physis 28 (1991): 699-725.
Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science: The
European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious,
and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
O'Malley, John W. The First Jesuits. Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Phillips, Edward C. "The Correspondence of Father Christopher
Clavius S.I. Preserved in the Archives of the Pontifical
Gregorian University." Archivum Historicum Societatis
Iesu 8 (1939): 193-222.
Van Helden, Albert. Measuring the Universe: Cosmic
Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Villoslada, Riccardo G. Storia del Collegio Romano dal suo
inizio (1551) alla soppressione della Compagnia di
Gesù (1773). Rome: Gregorian University, 1954.
Wallace, William A. Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage
of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1984.
James M. Lattis----lattis@sal.wisc.edu