Natur als moralische Anstalt : die Meteorologia philosophico-politica des Franz Reinzer, S.J. : ein naturwissenschaftliches Emblembuch aus dem Jahre 1698 / Cristoph Meinel.
Abstract:
The history of early modern meteorology has been almost entirely neglected by historians of science. In fact the ancient science of bodies between earth and heaven, bound to the framework of Aristotelian cosmology for centuries, has little in common with the physics of the atmosphere which divorced itself from its homonymous predecessor during the nineteenth century. Reinzer's Meteorologia, a most unusual synthesis of emblem book, princely advice, and textbook of meteorology, reveals the historical place of a branch of natural science that remained off the main course of the Scientific Revolution, a branch of science however, that flourished within the peculiar social, educational and intellectual context provided by an Austrian Jesuit college during the last decade of the seventeenth century
Nuncius A. 2, fasc. 1 (1987), p. 37-94