Santo Antão

David Salomoni, Ph.D., University for Foreigners of Siena, is an Assistant Professor in History of Education. He has published monographs, articles, and edited volumes, such as Educating the Catholic People: Religious Orders and Their Schools in Early Modern Italy (2021) and A Global Earth in the Classroom: New Voices in the History of Early Modern Education (2024).Luana Giurgevich, Ph.D., CIUHCT, University of Lisbon, is a researcher in the RUTTER Project, focusing on the circulation of scientific books, nautical technical literature, and early modern textual production. She has authored several books and articles, including Clavis Bibliothecarum: Catálogos e Inventários de Livrarias de Instituições Religiosas em Portugal até 1834 (co-authored with Henrique Leitão, 2016).Henrique Leitão is Senior Researcher at the Department for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, of which is presently Pro-rector (Provost). He has published extensively on the history of 16th-17th century astronomy, cosmography and cartography. He is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. He has been awarded several academic prizes and distinctions, among which an ERC advanced grant in 2018.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Why Santo Antão?Henrique Leitão, Luana Giurgevich and David Salomoni1 Trailing a Bumpy Road: the Jesuit College of Santo Antão in LisbonFrancisco Malta Romeiras2 The Early Years of the Colégio de Santo Antão in LisbonLiam Matthew Brockey3 The Jesuit Community of the Colégio de Santo Antão: Everyday Life and Material Culture (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Cristina Osswald and Maria Luísa Jacquinet4 Voice in São Roque and Echo in Santo Antão: Jesuit Festivities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesMaria João Pereira Coutinho5 The College of Santo Antão of Lisbon, the Plans at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Design of the Lost Church, by the “Great Architect” Baltazar ÁlvaresRui Lobo and Ricardo Lucas Branco6 Mathematical Books in the Pre-Pombal Jesuit Colégio de Santo Antão in Lisbon: the Inventory of 1745 and Other ItemsNoël Golvers7 In a Global Republic of Stars: Santo Antão’s Astronomers and Observatories in the Eighteenth CenturyLuís Tirapicos8 Forecasting and Mathematics: the Teaching of Astrology in Santo AntãoLuis Campos Ribeiro9 The Teaching of Philosophy at the College of Santo Antão (1590–1690)Paula Oliveira e Silva10 Baltasar Teles on Logic: Universals, Signs, and Scientific DemonstrationSimone Guidi11 The Tragic Jesuit Embassy of the Kangxi Emperor to Pope Clement XI, and the Lisbon Experience of “Imperial Envoy” Antonio ProvanaEugenio MenegonAppendix: Jesuits and Science in the Portuguese Assistancy: Thirty Years of Studies. A Bibliography, 1993–2023Henrique Leitão and Luana GiurgevichIndex