The Work and Contributions of Christoph Scheiner was becoming popular. The Jesuits were an offshoot of traditional Catholicism, in which the values promulgated by the Jesuits directly reflected the tenets of the Catholic Church. Some claim that the formation of the Jesuits was itself a retaliatory counter-reformation and that it was adopted in order to combat the Protestant Reformation, which had swept Europe during the first half of the same century (O' Malley, 43). Despite certain religious restrictions implicit in working behind the veil of Catholicism, Scheiner produced a number of pioneering ideas throughout his career as a mathematician and astronomer. He was both cursed and blessed for having done much of his work at the same time as the famous astronomer Galileo, who oversaw his publications. Although some of Scheiner's work was erroneous, he managed to overcome most of his errors and criticisms, and ultimately established himself as a supreme authority on sunspots for almost two hundred years (College, 569). Scheiner's entire formal education came from the teachings of Jesuit establishments, where he learned and believed (like most) in the Aristotelian structure of the cosmos. In his later years he attended Society University, where in 1600 he studied mathematics and physics under Johannes Lanz (Reeves, 37). Lanz had great regard for Scheiner, particularly for his abilities in mathematics and mechanics. In later years, Scheiner began teaching mathematics when he learned of a mechanical artist's drawing aid, the pantograph, middle of paper ......mos and advanced the science towards its true natural place. Works CitedCollege, Carleton. Popular astronomy. Flight. 24. Northfield, MN: Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College, 1916. PrintDrake, Stillman, NM Swerdlow, and Trevor Harvey. Lever. Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1999. Print. Feingold, Mordechai, ed. The new science and Jesuit science: perspectives from the seventeenth century. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2003. Print. Krips, Henry. Science, reason and rhetoric. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, 1995. Print.Reeves, Eileen Adair. and Helden Albert. Van. On sunspots. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2010. Print. O'Malley, John W. "The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences and Arts", 1540-1773, Volume 1. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Church History. (1999): 1-746. Online database.

Essay / The Work and Contributions of Christoph Scheiner was becoming popular. The Jesuits were an offshoot of traditional Catholicism, in which the values promulgated by the Jesuits directly reflected the tenets of the Catholic Church. Some claim that the formation of the Jesuits was itself a retaliatory counter-reformation and that it was adopted in order to combat the Protestant Reformation, which had swept Europe during the first half of the same century (O' Malley, 43). Despite certain religious restrictions implicit in working behind the veil of Catholicism, Scheiner produced a number of pioneering ideas throughout his career as a mathematician and astronomer. He was both cursed and blessed for having done much of his work at the same time as the famous astronomer Galileo, who oversaw his publications. Although some of Scheiner's work was erroneous, he managed to overcome most of his errors and criticisms, and ultimately established himself as a supreme authority on sunspots for almost two hundred years (College, 569). Scheiner's entire formal education came from the teachings of Jesuit establishments, where he learned and believed (like most) in the Aristotelian structure of the cosmos. In his later years he attended Society University, where in 1600 he studied mathematics and physics under Johannes Lanz (Reeves, 37). Lanz had great regard for Scheiner, particularly for his abilities in mathematics and mechanics. In later years, Scheiner began teaching mathematics when he learned of a mechanical artist's drawing aid, the pantograph, middle of paper ......mos and advanced the science towards its true natural place. Works CitedCollege, Carleton. Popular astronomy. Flight. 24. Northfield, MN: Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College, 1916. PrintDrake, Stillman, NM Swerdlow, and Trevor Harvey. Lever. Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1999. Print. Feingold, Mordechai, ed. The new science and Jesuit science: perspectives from the seventeenth century. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 2003. Print. Krips, Henry. Science, reason and rhetoric. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh, 1995. Print.Reeves, Eileen Adair. and Helden Albert. Van. On sunspots. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2010. Print. O'Malley, John W. "The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences and Arts", 1540-1773, Volume 1. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Church History. (1999): 1-746. Online database.

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