Francisco Malta Romeiras

Research interests

• History of Science in Portugal (16th-20th century);
• Jesuit Science (16th-20th century);
• Inquisition and the Censorship of Scientific Books (16th-17th century);
• Popularization of Sciences (19th-20th century)

Projects

• "Ciência e Censura na Idade Moderna: A Inquisição e o livro científico em Portugal (séculos XVI e XVII)", Post-doctoral project, financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Supervisor: Henrique Leitão. (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/115360/2016), 2017-2019. [Concluded]
• Scientific coordination, together with Henrique Leitão, of the collection Obra Selecta do Padre Luís Archer S.J. (4 vols.). Published by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in partnership with the Brotéria journal and CIUHCT, 2011-2017. [Concluded]
• "Das Ciências Naturais à Genética: A divulgação científica na revista Brotéria (1902-2002) e o ensino científico da Companhia de Jesus nos séculos XIX e XX em Portugal", PhD project in History and Philosophy of Sciences. Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Supervisor: Henrique Leitão. (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/61883/2009), 2011-2014. [Concluded]

Publications (selection)

Books

1. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
2. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal. História ilustrada (Cascais: Lucerna, 2018).
3. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Ciência, Prestígio e Devoção: Os Jesuítas e a Ciência em Portugal (séculos XIX e XX) (Cascais: Lucerna, 2015).
4. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Henrique Leitão (eds.), Obra Selecta do Padre Luís Archer, 4 Vols. (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2015-2017).

Papers

1. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Jesuit Science in America: The Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists (1922–66)", in Engaging Sources: The Tradition and the Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus,  ed. Cristiano Casalini, Emanuele Colombo, Seth Meehan (Boston: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2021). DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.24
2. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "The Inquisition and the Censorship of Science in Early Modern Europe: Introduction", Annals of Science, vol. 77 (2020): 1-9.
3. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Putting the Indices into Practice: Censoring Science in Early Modern Portugal", Annals of Science, vol. 77 (2020): 71-95.
4. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Francisco Saldanha da Gama: The Last Visitor of the Portuguese Assistancy", in With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitor in the Society of Jesus,  ed. Thomas McCoog (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 172-190.
5. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "For the Greater Credibility: Jesuit Science and Education in Modern Portugal (1858–1910)", History of Science, vol. 56 (2018), 97-119.
6. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Os colégios dos jesuítas e o ensino da física em Portugal (1858-1910)", Gazeta de Física, vol. 40 (2017), 2-9.
7. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Henrique Leitão "One Century of Science: The Jesuit Journal Brotéria (1902-2002)", in Robert. A. Maryks, ed., Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 235-258.
8. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Constituição e percurso das colecções científicas dos jesuítas exilados pela 1ª República: o caso de Carlos Zimmermann SJ (1871-1950)", Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. LXXXVI (168) (2015), 287-327.
9. Francisco Malta Romeiras, Henrique Leitão, "The role of science in the history of Portuguese anti-Jesuitism", Journal of Jesuit Studies, vol. 2 (2015), 77-99.

Reviews

1. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Review of Copernicus Banned. The Entangled Matter of the anti-Copernican Decree of 1616 edited by Natacha Fabbri and Federica Favino", Isis 111 (2020): 172-173.
2. Francisco Malta Romeiras, "Review of Pious Postmortem. Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe by Bradford A. Bouley", Isis 110 (2019): 399-400.