Christoforo Borri
Christoforo Borri (1583 in
In Vietnam
Borri's family was one of good standing in Milan. He became a member of the
At Coimbra
After his return Borri taught mathematics at
Borri's most important work Relatione della nuova missione delli P.P. della Compagnia di Gesù al Regno della Cocincina appeared in Rome in 1631 and was translated into French, Dutch, Latin, German and English. It was also inserted in Churchill's Collection of Voyages (1704), and in and Sprengel and Forster's Neue Beitrage zur Volkerund Länderkunde (1793). The work was considered one of the best sources of information concerning Cochinchina on account of its detailed description of the physical, political, and ecclesiastical conditions of the country.
Borri also made observations on the magnetic variation of the compass. According to Kircher (1641) he drew up the first chart for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans showing the spots where the magnetic needle makes the same angles with the meridian; if this is true, he should be regarded as the forerunner of
See also
References
- ^ Dror & Taylor (2006), p. 32.
- ^ Silk for Silver: Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, 1637-1700 – Page 252 Anh Tuấn Hoàng – 2007 "The Italian priest Christopher Borri, who lived in Hội An between 1618 and 1622, recorded this incident: ..."
- Sources
- Dror, Olga; Taylor, K. W., eds. (2006). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Southeast Asia Program Publications. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Christopher Borrus". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Cites:
- Allatius, Apes Urbanae (Rome, 1633), 66;
- Kircher, Magnes sive de arte magneticâ (Rome, 1641), 502;
- De Visch, Bibliotheteca scriptorum Sacr. Ord. Cisterciensis (Cologne, 1656) 71;
- Backer-Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (1890), I, 1821–22; VII, 1878;
External links
- Carolino, Luís Miguel (2007). "Cristoforo Borri and the epistemological status of mathematics in seventeenth-century Portugal". Historia Mathematica. 34 (2): 187–205. .
- Petech, Luciano (1971). "BORRI, Cristoforo". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Lynn Thorndike in American Historical Review (also here)
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