Bibliography:FCR Bibliography 0067
Guerola Olivares, Joaquim. El códex Barberinus Latinus 304 y las reflexiones de Baltasar de Torres sobre la enseñanza de las Matemáticas en los primeros años del Collegio Romano. (2021).
| Name(s) | Guerola Olivares, Joaquim |
|---|---|
| Title | El códex Barberinus Latinus 304 y las reflexiones de Baltasar de Torres sobre la enseñanza de las Matemáticas en los primeros años del Collegio Romano |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Contained in | Llull vol. 44/89 |
| Bibliographic level | Paper in journal |
| Keyword(s) | Mathematics; Jesuit Education; Collegium Romanum; Pedagogy |
| Digitization | https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/LLUL/article/view/92980/76341 |
The codex manuscript Barberinus Latinus 304 by the Spanish physician Baltasar de Torres, who was the first professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano, is a miscellany of various subjects written throughout the eight years of his stay in Rome. These are personal notes that were written by Torres without the intention of publishing them. About a hundred pages are missing. The Barberinus Latinus 304 codex has never been transcribed. Only the scholars of the first mathematics curricula of this university have partially cited some of its passages, although not literally. The objective of this article is to present the transcription of the parts of the codex related to the teaching plans of mathematics and its teaching practice. To put it in context, it is explained how Torres developed his interest in mathematics as a result of his stay in Palermo, his entry into the Society of Jesus and the work he was entrusted with. The importance that Torres wanted to give to mathematics in the education of the Jesuits is shown. The initial plan, which extended to four years, was reduced to two and a half years and, consequently, its contents were reduced as a result of the tensions to accept into the curriculum a subject that many Jesuits considered as a non-Aristotelian science. Thanks to Torres’ work, the Collegio Romano soon became a space for research and pedagogical experimentation in the field of mathematics that lasted over time. Torres’s biography shows his great interest in acquiring and bringing together the main mathematical, classical and recent authors’ works which allowed for the creation of the basic nucleus of what would be the mathematical library of the Collegio Romano.
