Classes and problems of natural philosophy of P. Francisco Mendoça SJ

Abstract

The author presents De floribus Philosophiae written by the famous Jesuit Francisco Mendoça ( 1626), professor of Philosophy and rector of the College of Arts in Coimbra in the first years of the XVIIth century. The work was published in a thick volume edited by the said College after the author’s death with the title Viridarium Sacrae et profanae eruditionis a real monument of encyclopaedic knowledge. 47 problemas are presented in De floribus Philosophiae, pertaining to Geography, Anatomy, Physics, Psychology, Astronomy and Anthropology. The text can thus be read as a contribution to the history of science.