Pereira [Pererius], Benedictus

1. Dates

Born: Ruzafa, Spain, 1535

Died: Rome, 6 Mar 1610

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 75

2. Father

Occupation: No Information

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Ruzafa, Spain

Career: Italy

Death: Rome, Italy

4. Education

Schooling: Collegio Romano, D.D.

After joining the Jesuit order, he was sent to Sicily and Rome to complete his education.

As a full Jesuit, he would have had a doctorate in theology.

Picatoste says that he completed his B.A. at the University of Valencia and then entered the order. This seems impossible.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic

1552, joined the Jesuit order.

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Scholastic Philosophy

Subordinate: Mechanics

7. Means of Support

Primary: Church Life

In Rome, at the Collegio Romano (the Jesuit institution), he taught logic, natural philosophy, metaphsics, theology, and became a known exponent on Sacred Scripture.

8. Patronage

Type: Eccesiastic Official

He dedicated books to Cardinals Gaetani (or Caetani) and Caraffa, and to Camilo Caetani, Patriarch of Alexandria.

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. Pierre Bayle, Grande dictionnaire historique..., 7 (Amsterdam, 1740), 126 [D9.M8 v.7] A de Backer, ed., (Sommervogel) Bibliotheque de la Compagnie de Jesus, 6, (Brussels-Paris), 499-507 [Lilly Z7840.J5 B123]
2. Marcial Solana, Historia de la filosofia española en el siglo XVI, 3 vols. (Madrid, 1941) 3, 373-401.
3. William Wallace, Galileo's Early Notebook, pp. 14-15.
4. Pedro de Ribadeneira, Bibliotheca scriptorum societatis jesu.
5. Nicolas Antonia, Bibliotheca hispana nova.
6. Felipe Picatoste y Rodriguez, Apuntes para una biblioteca cientifica española del siglo XVI, (Madrid, 1891).
7. There is surprisingly little information about a man who was so important in the culture of his time. The sources just repeat the same minimal facts about his life.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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