Honoré Fabri

Honoré Fabri

Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 15 April 1608, Ain, France – 8 March 1688, Rome) was a French Jesuit theologian. He was a mathematician, physicist and controversialist.[1][2]

Life

He entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, in 1626. For eight years he taught philosophy and for six years mathematics at the Jesuit college at Lyons, attracting many pupils. Called to Rome, he became the theologian of the court of the papal penitentiary in the Vatican basilica, a position he held for thirty years.[1][2]

Works

Sommervogel mentions thirty-one titles of published works in connection with Fabri's name, besides fourteen of his productions in manuscript, in the Library of Lyons.

The following are the more important of his publications:

This work was attacked by Stephanus Gradius, Prefect of the Vatican Library, in his Disputatio de opinione probabili (Rome, 1678; Mechlin, 1679).

This treats, in eleven dialogues, of probabilism, explaining its true nature, and refuting the charges of its opponents. The Cologne edition was considerably enlarged but did not meet with ecclesiastical approbation; it was placed on the Index of forbidden books soon after its appearance.

The principles on which this work constructs its theological conclusions are far different from those of Aristotle.

Most of Fabri's other works deal with philosophy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, and even zoology. In his treatise on man he claims to have discovered the circulation of the blood, prior to William Harvey, but after having investigated this question, Father Auguste Bellynck arrives at the conclusion that, at best, Father Fabri may have made the discovery independently of Harvey.[1][3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Honoré Fabri. www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
  2. 1 2 Elazar, Michael (2011). Honoré Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: A Bridge Between Conceptual Frameworks. Springer. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-94-007-1605-6.
  3. cf. Bellynck (1864) Cours de Zoologie, p. 23.

Further reading

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "article name needed". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

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