Jesuits and the Book of Nature

Francisco Malta Romeiras, PhD (2014), is a research fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon. He has published widely on Jesuit science and education, including Jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal: História ilustrada (Cascais: Lucerna, 2018).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Jesuit Science and Education: A Brief History2 The Pombaline Expulsion and the Building of Anti-Jesuitism3 Carlos Rademaker and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal4 For the Greater Credibility: Science and Education in Modern Portugal5 The Republican Exile and the Confiscation of the Natural History Collections6 The Journal Brotéria, the Book of Nature, and the Greater Glory of God7 The Journal Brotéria: Vulgarização científica and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine8 Taxonomy, Cytogenetics, and Plant Breeding in the Early Years of Estado Novo9 New Lenses to Read the Book of Nature: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, and BioethicsConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

"Francisco Malta Romeiras offers a worthy contribution to the vast and still growing body of scholarship on Jesuit science from a rather original standpoint: modern Portugal [...] The book is a very informative, if rather descriptive, contribution to the history of Catholic science in thenineteenth and twentieth centuries [...] Jesuits and the Book of Nature thus offers an engaging collective portrait of four generations of men of science and faith, shedding light on a myriad of better- and lesser-known figures and facts and bringing them to the attention of a wide international scholarly audience; it is certainly a very welcome contribution to a thriving field of investigation."Maria Pia Donato, CNRS Paris, in Isis, 112.2 (2021)(full review: https://doi.org/10.1086/714670)