Essay Review ‘Neither Proper nor Useful’: Jesuit Orthodoxy and Galilean Science Reviewed by BRIAN VICKERS, Centre for Renaissance Studies, ETH Zurich, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich, Switzerland. e‐mail: [email protected]

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Notes

¹See also two volumes edited by Luce Giard, Les jésuites à la Renaissance: Système educatif et production du savoir (Paris, 1995), Les jésuites à l'âge baroque, 1540–1640 (Grenoble, 1996), and a huge tome edited by J. W. O'Malley and others, The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773 (Toronto, 1999), reviewed in Annals of Science, 59 (2002), 432–34.

²The Clementinum was the subject of an interesting exhibition at the Czech National Library in Prague in November 2002, called ‘Utilitas Matheseos: Jesuit Mathematics at the Clementinum 1602–1773’. The exhibits included several little­known manuscripts, Clavius' edition of Euclid's Elements—which formed mathematical instruction at the college, and works by Moretus, Stansel, and others. See the report in Nouvelles du Livre Ancien, no. 110 (autumn 2002), 10–11. Apparently, the catalogue may be ordered from the National Library's website: http://www.nkp.cz.publikace/kontakt.htm.