Ciencia en las misiones jesuíticas. La astronomía de Buenaventura Suárez, S.I. (1679-1750)

ASÚA, MIGUEL DE Y HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO; DIEGO HURTADO

Stromata

Universidad del Salvador

Lugar: San Miguel; Año: 2004 vol. LX p. 79 - 97

0049-2353

Many of the observations of Buenaventura Suárez (1679-1750), a Jesuit astronomer who worked in the missions of Paraguay, were made known in prestigious contemporary scientific European periodicals such as the Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Upsalensis and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Suárez recorded lunar and solar eclipses, and inmensions and emersions of the satellites of Jupiter with the purpose of determining the longitude of the mission towns he lived in. He was able to keep abreast of the state of the field and communicate his results through the intermediacy of an epistolary net with correspondents in Europe and the New World.