Entre vórtices cartesianos y gravitación newtoniana: la Cosmología de Andrés de Guevara y Basoasabal S. J. (1748-1801)

Authors

  • S. Galindo

Keywords:

Basoasabal, pasatiempos de cosmología, institutionum elementarium Philosophi{\ae}

Abstract

This work reviews the content of the Cartesian vortex theory and Newton's gravitation in the only books that Andrés de Guevara Basoasabal wrote: Pasatiempos de Cosmologia (1789) and Institutionum Elementarium Philosophi{\ae} (1796). For this purpose we discuss the origin and development of the rivalry between the two theories by analyzing two Jesuit encyclopedic journals published during the Age of Enlightenment. It is shown that on the one hand a group of Jesuits championed the Cartesian theory while scientists that of Newton. Despite being Guevara a Jesuit we show his penchant for Newtonian gravitation in both of his works.

Downloads

Published

2012-01-01

How to Cite

[1]
S. Galindo, “Entre vórtices cartesianos y gravitación newtoniana: la Cosmología de Andrés de Guevara y Basoasabal S. J. (1748-1801)”, Rev. Mex. Fis. E, vol. 58, no. 2 Jul-Dec, pp. 133–149, Jan. 2012.

Issue

Vol. 58 No. 2 Jul-Dec (2012): Revista Mexicana de Física E

Section

Artículos

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Revista Mexicana de Física E

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors retain copyright and grant the Revista Mexicana de Física E right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.