Andreas Eudaemon-Joannis (1566–1625)
[ Charles E. O'Neill, ''Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús: biográfico-temático''
p. 1343]
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was a Greek
Jesuit, natural philosopher and controversialist. He was sometimes known as Cydonius.
Life
He entered the Society of Jesus in 1581, in Italy.
Stillman Drake
Stillman Drake (December 24, 1910 – October 6, 1993) was a Canadian historian of science best known for his work on Galileo Galilei (1569–1642). Drake published over 131 books, articles, and book chapters on Galileo. Including his translati ...
, ''Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography'' (2003), p. 447
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He was at the
Collegio Romano
The Roman College ( la, Collegium Romanum, it, Collegio Romano) was a school established by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, just 11 years after he founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). It quickly grew to include classes from elementary school t ...
, where in 1597–8 he lectured on the ''Physics'' and other works of
Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...
; he wrote himself on
projectile motion
Projectile motion is a form of motion experienced by an object or particle (a projectile) that is projected in a gravitational field, such as from Earth's surface, and moves along a curved path under the action of gravity only. In the particul ...
. He was at
Padua
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
from 1601,
where he discussed the "ship's mast experiment" (see
Galileo's ship
Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th and 17th century physicist and astronomer. The experiments were created to argue the idea of a rotating Earth as opposed t ...
) with
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He wa ...
. This meeting was before 1606.
Eudaemon-Joannis took a deathbed statement from Bellarmine in 1621. He became rector of the
Greek College, Rome in 1622.
He was theologian and advisor to
Cardinal Francesco Barberini who went on a mission as legate to Paris in 1624/5. An unpopular insistence on the formalities was attributed to him, at a time of tension between the Jesuits and the French Catholic Church. He died in Rome, on 24 December 1625.
Works
He defended
Robert Bellarmine
Robert Bellarmine, SJ ( it, Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 37. ...
, in particular, against English attacks over the
allegiance oath of James I. One work was directed against
Edward Coke, continuing a defence of
Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet (July 1555 – 3 May 1606), sometimes Henry Garnett, was an English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Heanor, Derbyshire, he was educated in Nottingham and later at Winchester Colle ...
. The pamphlet war drew in
Isaac Casaubon
Isaac Casaubon (; ; 18 February 1559 – 1 July 1614) was a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England.
His son Méric Casaubon was also a classical scholar.
Life Early life
He was born in Geneva to two Fr ...
, and Eudaemon-Joannis was attacked by name by
John Prideaux
John Prideaux (7 September 1578 – 29 July 1650) was an English academic and Bishop of Worcester.
Early life
The fourth son of John and Agnes Prideaux, he was born at Stowford House in the parish of Harford, near Ivybridge, Devon, England, ...
.
Eudaemon-Joannis was sometimes considered to be a
pseudonym
A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...
in this debate, for example for
Scioppius; or for the French Jesuit
Jean L'Heureux, something repeated in the ''Criminal Trials'' of
David Jardine in the 19th century. A 1625 work, the ''Admonitio'' attacking
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
, that appeared under the pseudonym G.G.R., has been attributed both to Eudaemon-Joannis and to
Jacob Keller.
Cardinal Richelieu believed Eudaemon-Joannis to be the author;
Carolus Scribani was another suspect, and
François Garasse Francis Garasse (French: ''François Garasse''; 1585-1631) was a French people, French Jesuit, preacher, polemicist and writer. He was the Jesuitism, Jesuitical writer, notable, for his wit and buffoonery, but more distinguished himself by his writi ...
was questioned, as part of the struggle of
Gallicanism
Gallicanism is the belief that popular civil authority—often represented by the monarch's or the state's authority—over the Catholic Church is comparable to that of the Pope. Gallicanism is a rejection of ultramontanism; it has so ...
against the Jesuits.
*''Adversus Roberti Abb. Oxoniensis de Antichristo sophismata'' (1609)
*''Ad actionem proditoriam Edouardi Coqui, apologia pro R.P. Henrico Garneto'' (1610)
*''Confutatio Anti-Cotoni'' (1611)
*''Parallelus Torti ac Tortoris'' (1611), against
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes (155525 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latter's reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chi ...
on behalf of Bellarmine.
[ Charles Howard McIlwain, ''The Political Works of James I'' (2002), p. lxvi]
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*''Castigatio Apocalypsis apocalypeos Th. Breghtmanni'' (1611); against
Thomas Brightman.
*''Responsio ad epistolam Isaaci Casauboni''; attack on Casaubon and reply to his letter to
Fronto Ducaeus.
It alleged Casaubon wrote on behalf of James I for money.
*''Epistola monitoria, ad Ioannem Barclaium'' (1613); against
John Barclay, who had written in defence of his father
William Barclay's ''De potestate papae''.
*''Epistola ad amicum Gallum super dissertatione politica Leidhresseri'' (1613); a reply to
Desiderius Heraldus (Didier Hérault or Hérauld) writing as David Leidhresserus.
[Jean Baptiste Joseph Boulliot, ''Biographie ardennaise'' Volume 2 (1830), p. 40]
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*''Refutatio exercitationum Isaaci Casauboni libris duobus comprehensa'' (1617)
*''Defensio annalium ecclesiasticorum Caesaris Baronii'' (1617)
*''Admonitio ad lectores librorum M. Antonii de dominis'' (1619)
*''Excerpta ex litteris de pio obitu Rob. cardinalis Bellarmini'' (1621)
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1566 births
1625 deaths
Greek Jesuits
People from Chania