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List of Roman Catholic clericscientists 1

List of Roman Catholic clericscientists

God as Architect/Geometer, from the frontispiece of

French Codex Vindobonensis 2554, ca. 1250.

Many Roman Catholic clerics throughout history have made

significant contributions to science. These cleric-scientists include

such illustrious names as Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel,

Georges Lematre, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre

Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Francesco

Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste,

Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni

Battista Riccioli, William of Ockham, and many others. Hundreds

of others have made important contributions to science from the

Middle Ages through the present day.

The Church has also produced thousands of lay scientists and

mathematicians, many of whom were the intellectual giants of

their day. These scientists include Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes,Louis Pasteur, Blaise Pascal, Andr-Marie Ampre,

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Pierre de Fermat, Antoine Laurent

Lavoisier, Alessandro Volta, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre

Duhem, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Georgius Agricola and countless

others.

The Jesuits in particular have made numerous significant

contributions to the development of science. For example, the Jesuits have dedicated significant study to

earthquakes, and seismology has come to be known as "the Jesuit science."[1] This, however, is only one of many

significant contributions. The Jesuits have been described as "the single most important contributor to experimental

physics in the seventeenth century."[2] According to Jonathan Wright in his book God's Soldiers, by the eighteenth

century the Jesuits had

contributed to the development of pendulum clocks, pantographs, barometers, reflecting telescopes and

microscopes, to scientific fields as various as magnetism, optics and electricity. They observed, in some

cases before anyone else, the colored bands on Jupiters surface, the Andromeda nebula and Saturns

rings. They theorized about the circulation of the blood (independently of Harvey), the theoretical

possibility of flight, the way the moon effected the tides, and the wave-like nature of light. Star maps of

the southern hemisphere, symbolic logic, flood-control measures on the Po and Adige rivers,

introducing plus and minus signs into Italian mathematics all were typical Jesuit achievements, and

scientists as influential as Fermat, Huygens, Leibniz and Newton were not alone in counting Jesuitsamong their most prized correspondents.[3]

The contributions of Roman Catholic clerics to the study of astronomy are also remarkable. J.L. Heilbron in his book

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories writes that "The Roman Catholic Church gave more

financial aid and support to the study of astronomy for over six centuries, from the recovery of ancient learning

during the late Middle Ages into the Enlightenment, than any other, and, probably, all other, institutions." [4] The fact

that thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians[1] shows the Church's

commitment to astronomy.

The Church's commitment to scientific studies continues to this day. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences was

founded in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Its aim is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical and natural

sciences and the study of related epistemological problems. The academy holds a membership roster of the most

respected names in 20th century science, many of them Nobel laureates. Also worth noting is the Vatican
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Observatory, which is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See.

The cleric-scientists

Nicolaus Copernicus

Roger Bacon's circular diagrams relating

to the scientific study of optics

Lorenzo Albacete (1941) Physicist and theologian

Jos de Acosta (15391600)Jesuit missionary and naturalist who wrote

one of the very first detailed and realistic descriptions of the new world

Franois d'Aguilon (15671617)Belgian Jesuit mathematician,

physicist, and architect.

Albert of Saxony (philosopher) (c. 13201390)German bishop known

for his contributions to logic and physics; with Buridan he helped develop

the theory that was a precursor to the modern theory of inertia

Albertus Magnus (c. 12061280)"One of the most famous precursors of

modern science in the High Middles Ages."[1] Patron saint of natural

sciences; Works in physics, logic, metaphysics, biology, and psychology.

Giulio Alenio SJ - Italian theologian, astronomer and mathematician. Hewas sent to the Far East as a missionary and adopted a chinese name and

customs. He wrote 25 books including a cosmography and aLife of Jesus

in Chinese.

Jos Mara Algu (18561930)Meteorologist who invented the

barocyclonometer

Jos Antonio de Alzate y Ramrez (17371799)Scientist, historian,

cartographer, meteorologist; wrote more than thirty treatises on a variety of

scientific subjects

Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli (18171899)Botanist who was

one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology Giovanni Antonelli (18181872)Director of the Ximenian Observatory

of Florence; collaborated on the design of a prototype of the internal

combustion engine

Nicol Arrighetti (17091767)Wrote treatises on light, heat, and

electricity.

Giuseppe Asclepi (17061776)Astronomer and physician; director of

the Collegio Romano observatory; The lunar crater Asclepi is named after

him.

Roger Bacon (c. 12141294)Significant contributions to mathematics

and optics; forerunner of modern scientific method.

Bernardino Baldi (15331617)Mathematician and writer

Eugenio Barsanti (18211864)Possible inventor of the internal

combustion engine

Bartholomeus Amicus (15621649)Wrote on philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and the concept of vacuum

and its relationship with God.

Daniello Bartoli (16081685)Bartoli and fellow Jesuit astronomer Niccol Zucchi are credited as probably

having been the first to see the equatorial belts on the planet Jupiter

Joseph Bayma (18161892)Known for work in stereochemistry and mathematics
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Monsignor Georges Lematre, priest and

scientist

Gregor Mendel, Augustinian monk and

geneticist

Sacrobosco'sDe sphaera mundi

Giacopo Belgrado (17041789)Experimental works in physics,

professor of mathematics and physics, and court mathematician

Mario Bettinus (15821657)Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and

astronomer; lunar crater Bettinus named after him

Giuseppe Biancani (15661624)Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and

selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named Jacques de Billy (16021679)Produced a number of results in number

theory which have been named after him; published several astronomical

tables; The crater Billy on the Moon is named after him.

Paolo Boccone (16331704)Cistercian botanist who contributed to the

fields of medicine and toxicology

Bernard Bolzano (17811848)Mathematician and logician; other

interests included metaphysics, ideas, sensation, and truth.

Anselmus de Boodt (15501632)One of the founders of mineralogy

Theodoric Borgognoni (12051298)Medieval Surgeon who made

important contributions to antiseptic practice and anaesthetics Christopher Borrus (15831632)Mathematician and astronomy who

made observations on the magnetic variation of the compass

Roger Joseph Boscovich (17111787)formulation of modern atomic

theory, important contributions to astronomy

Joachim Bouvet (16561730)Jesuit sinologist and cartographer who did

his work in China

Micha Boym (c. 16121659)One of the first westerners to travel within

the Chinese mainland, and the author of numerous works on Asian fauna,

flora and geography.

Thomas Bradwardine (c. 12901349)Mathematician who contributed to

mean speed theorem; one of the Oxford Calculators

Henri Breuil (18771961)Archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and

geologist.

Jan Broek (15851652)Polish polymath, mathematician, astronomer,

and physician; the most prominent Polish mathematician of the 17th

century

Louis-Ovide Brunet (18261876)One of the founding fathers of

Canadian botany

Francesco Fa di Bruno (c. 1825

1888)

Mathematician beatified byPope John Paul II

Giordano Bruno (15481600)Dominican philosopher, mathematician,

and astronomer who believed in the infinity of the universe; burned at the

stake for other heretical views.

Ismal Bullialdus (16051694)Astronomer and member of the Royal

Society; the Bullialdus crater is named in his honor

Jean Buridan (c. 1300after 1358)Early ideas of momentum and

inertial motion; sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe

Roberto Busa SJ (1913-2011) - He wrote a lemmatization of the complete

works of St. Thomas Aquinas (Index Thomisticus) which was later digitalized by IBM and ultimately developedin the creation of HTML
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Marin Mersenne

Pierre Gassendi

William of Ockham

Niccol Cabeo (15861650)Jesuit mathematician; the crater Cabeus is

named in his honor

Nicholas Callan (17991846)Best known for his work on the induction

coil

Jean Baptiste Carnoy (18361899)Founder of the science of cytology

Giovanni di Casali (died c. 1375)

Provided a graphical analysis of themotion of accelerated bodies

Paolo Casati (16171707)Jesuit mathematician who wrote on

astronomy and vacuums; The crater Casatus on the Moon is named after

him.

Laurent Cassegrain (16291693)Probable namesake of the Cassegrain

telescope; The crater Cassegrain on the Moon is named after him

Benedetto Castelli (15781643)Benedictine mathematician; long-time

friend and supporter of Galileo Galilei, who was his teacher; wrote an

important work on fluids in motion

Bonaventura Cavalieri (15981647)He is known for his work on theproblems of optics and motion, work on the precursors of infinitesimal

calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri's principle in

geometry partially anticipated integral calculus; the lunar crater Cavalerius

is named in his honor

Antonio Jos Cavanilles (17451804)A leading Spanish taxonomic

botanist of the 18th century

Francesco Cetti (17261778)Jesuit zoologist and mathematician

Tommaso Ceva (16481737)Jesuit mathematician and professor who

wrote treatises on geometry, gravity, and arithmetic

Christopher Clavius (15381612)Respected Jesuit Astronomer and

mathematician who headed the commission that yielded the Gregorian

calendar; wrote influential astronomical textbook.

Guy Consolmagno (1952)Jesuit astronomer and planetary scientist

Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543)Renaissance astronomer famous for

his heliocentric cosmology that set in motion the Copernican Revolution

Vincenzo Coronelli (16501718)Franciscan cosmographer,

cartographer, encyclopedist, and globe-maker

George Coyne (1933)Jesuit astronomer and former director of the

Vatican Observatory James Cullen (mathematician) (18671933)Jesuit mathematician who

published what is now known as Cullen numbers in number theory

James Curley (astronomer) (17961889)First director of Georgetown

Observatory; determined the latitude and longitude of Washington D.C.

Albert Curtz (16001671)Jesuit astronomer who expanded on the works

of Tycho Brahe and contributed to early understanding of the moon; The

crater Curtius on the Moon is named after him.

Johann Baptist Cysat (15871657)Jesuit mathematician and astronomer, after whom the lunar crater Cysatus is

named; published the first printed European book concerning Japan; one of the first to make use of the newly

developed telescope; most important work was on comets
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Illustration from Steno's 1667 paper

comparing the teeth of a shark head with

a fossil tooth

Nicole Oresme

Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1722-1769) - Astronomer best known

for his observations of the transits of Venus

Ignazio Danti (15361586)Dominican mathematician, astronomer,

cosmographer, and cartographer

Armand David (18261900)Zoologist and botanist who did important

work in both areas in China Charles-Michel de l'pe (17121789)Known as the "father of the deaf"

and established the world's first free school for the deaf

Francesco Denza (18341894)Meteorologist, astronomer, and director

of Vatican Observatory

Vclav Prokop Divi (16981765)Studied the lightning rod independent

of Franklin; constructed the first electrified musical instrument in history

Johann Dzierzon (18111906)Pioneering apiarist who discovered the

phenomenon of parthenogenesis among bees, and designed the first

successful movable-frame beehive; has been described as the "father of

modern apiculture" Honor Fabri (16071688)Jesuit mathematician and physicist

Jean-Charles de la Faille (15971652)Jesuit mathematician who

determined the center of gravity of the sector of a circle for the first time

Gabriele Falloppio (15231562)One of the most important anatomists

and physicians of the sixteenth century. The Fallopian tubes, which extend

from the uterus to the ovaries, are named for him.

Gyula Fnyi (18451927)Jesuit astronomer and director of the Haynald

Observatory; noted for his observations of the sun; The crater Fnyi on the

Moon is named after him

Louis Feuille (16601732)Explorer, astronomer, geographer, and

botanist

Placidus Fixlmillner (17211791)Benedictine priest and one of the first

astronomers to compute the orbit of Uranus

Paolo Frisi (17281784)Mathematician and astronomer who did significant work in hydraulics

Jos Gabriel Funes (1963)Jesuit astronomer and current director of the Vatican Observatory

Joseph Galien (1699c. 1762)Dominican professor who wrote on aeronautics, hailstorms, and airships

Jean Gallois (16321707)French scholar and member of Academie des sciences

Pierre Gassendi (15921655)French astronomer and mathematician who published the first data on the transit

of Mercury; best known intellectual project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity Agostino Gemelli (18781959)Franciscan physician and psychologist; founded Catholic University of the

Sacred Heart in Milan

Johannes von Gmunden (c. 13801442)Mathematician and astronomer who compiled astronomical tables;

Asteroid 15955 Johannesgmunden named in his honor
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Albertus Magnus

Christopher Clavius

Carlos de Sigenza y Gngora (16451700)Polymath, mathematician,

astronomer, and cartographer; drew the first map of all of New Spain

Andrew Gordon (Benedictine) (17121751)Benedictine monk,

physicist, and inventor who made the first electric motor

Christoph Grienberger (15611636)Jesuit astronomer after whom the

crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named; verified Galileo's discovery ofJupiter's moons.

Francesco Maria Grimaldi (16181663)Discovered the diffraction of

light, and indeed coined the term "diffraction"; investigated the free fall of

objects; built and used instruments to measure geological features on the

moon

Robert Grosseteste (c. 11751253)One of the most knowledgeable

men of the Middle Ages; has been called "the first man to write down a

complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment."[1]

Paul Guldin (15771643)Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who

discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volumeof a solid of revolution

Bartolomeu de Gusmo (16851724)Known for his early work on

lighter-than-air airship design

Johann Georg Hagen (18471930)Director of the Georgetown and

Vatican Observatories; The crater Hagen on the Moon is named after him.

Nicholas Halma (17551828)French mathematician and translator

Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (16241706)French natural philosopher and

secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences

Ren Just Hay (17431822)Father of crystallography

Maximilian Hell (17201792)Jesuit astronomer and director of the

Vienna Observatory; the crater Hell on the Moon is named after him.

Micha Heller (1936)Templeton Prize winner and prolific writer on

numerous scientific topics

Lorenz Hengler (18061858)Often credited as the inventor of the

horizontal pendulum

Hermann of Reichenau (10131054)Historian, music theorist,

astronomer, and mathematician

Pierre Marie Heude (18361902)Jesuit missionary and zoologist who

studied the natural history of Eastern Asia Franz von Paula Hladnik (17731844)Botanist who discovered several new kinds of plants, and certain genera

have been named after him

Giovanni Battista Hodierna (15971660)Astronomer who catalogued nebulous objects and developed an early

microscope

Victor-Alphonse Huard (18531929)Naturalist, educator, writer, and promoter of the natural sciences

Maximus von Imhof (17581817)German Augustinian physicist and director of the Munich Academy of

Sciences

Giovanni Inghirami (17791851)Italian astronomer; there is a valley on the moon named after him as well as a

crater
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First page of Boscovich's Theoria

Philosophi Naturalis

Map of the Far East by Matteo Ricci in

1602

Nicolas of Cusa

Franois Jacquier (17111788)Franciscan mathematician and physicist;

at his death he was connected with nearly all the great scientific and

literary societies of Europe

Stanley Jaki (19242009)Benedictine priest and prolific writer who

wrote on the relationship between science and theology

nyos Jedlik (1800

1895)

Benedictine engineer, physicist, andinventor; considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of

the dynamo and electric motor

Georg Joseph Kamel (16611706)Jesuit missionary and botanist who

established the first pharmacy in the Philippines

Otto Kippes (19051994)Acknowledged for his work in asteroid orbit

calculations; the main belt asteroid 1780 Kippes was named in his honour

Athanasius Kircher (16021680)The father of Egyptology; "Master of a

hundred arts"; wrote an encyclopedia of China; one of the first people to

observe microbes through a microscope

Wenceslas Pantaleon Kirwitzer (15881626)Jesuit astronomer andmissionary who published observations of comets

Jan Krzysztof Kluk (17391796)Naturalist agronomist and

entomologist who wrote a multi-volume work on Polish animal life

Sebastian Kneipp (18211897)One of the founders of the Naturopathic

medicine movement

Marian Wolfgang Koller (17921866)Professor who wrote on

astronomy, physics, and meteorology

Franz Xaver Kugler (18621929)Jesuit chemist, mathematician, and

Assyriologist who is most noted for his studies of cuneiform tablets and

Babylonian astronomy

Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762) - French astronomer noted for

cataloguing stars, nebulous objects, and constellations

Eugene Lafont (18371908)Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and founder of

the first Scientific Society in India

Antoine de Laloubre (16001664)The first mathematician to study the

properties of the helix

Bernard Lamy (16401715)Philosopher and mathematician who wrote

on the parallelogram of forces

Pierre Andr Latreille (1762

1833)

Entomologist whose worksdescribing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today

Georges Lematre (18941966)Father of the Big Bang Theory

Thomas Linacre (c. 14601524)Humanist translator and physician

Francis Line (15951675)Magnetic clock and sundial maker who

disagreed with some of the findings of Newton and Boyle

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (16061682)Prolific writer on a variety of

scientific subjects; a earlier writer on probability

Jean Mabillon (16321707)Benedictine monk and scholar, considered the founder of palaeography and

diplomatics
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Statue of Roger Bacon in the Oxford

University Museum

Nicolas Steno

James B. Macelwane (18831956)"The best-known Jesuit seismologist"

and "one of the most honored practicioners of the science of all time";

wrote the first textbook on seismology in America.

Paul McNally (18901955)Jesuit astronomer and director of

Georgetown Observatory; the crater McNally on the Moon is named after

him. Pierre Macq (1930)Physicist who was awarded the Francqui Prize on

Exact Sciences for his work on experimental nuclear physics

Manuel Magri (18511907)Jesuit ethnographer, archaeologist and

writer; one of Malta's pioneers in archaeology

Emmanuel Maignan (16011676)Physicist and professor of medicine

who published works on gnomonics and perspective

Charles Malapert (15811630)Jesuit writer, astronomer, and proponent

of Aristotelian cosmology; also known for observations of sunpots and of

the lunar surface, and the crater Malapert on the Moon is named after him

Nicolas Malebranche (16381715)Philosopher who studied physics,optics, and the laws of motion; disseminated the ideas of Descartes and

Leibniz

Marcin of Urzdw (c. 15001573)Physician, pharmacist, and botanist

Joseph Marchal (18781944)Jesuit philosopher and psychologist

Marie-Victorin (18851944)Botanist best known as the father of the

Jardin botanique de Montral

Edme Mariotte (c. 16201684)Physicist who recognized Boyle's Law

and wrote about the nature of color

Francesco Maurolico (14941575)Made contributions to the fields of

geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy; gave the first

known proof by mathematical induction

Christian Mayer (astronomer) (17191783)Jesuit astronomer most noted for pioneering the study of binary

stars

Gregor Mendel (18221884)Augustinian monk and father of genetics

Pietro Mengoli (16261686)Mathematician who first posed the famous Basel Problem

Giuseppe Mercalli (18501914)Volcanologist and director of the Vesuvius Observatory; best remembered

today for his Mercalli scale for measuring earthquakes which is still in use

Marin Mersenne (15881648)Philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist who is often referred to as the

"father of acoustics" Paul of Middelburg (14461534)Wrote important works on the reform of the Calendar

Maciej Miechowita (14571523)Wrote the first accurate geographical and ethnographical description of

Eastern Europe; also wrote two medical treatises

Franois-Napolon-Marie Moigno (18041884)Jesuit physicist and mathematician; was an expositor of

science and translator rather than an original investigator
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machina meteorologic invented by

Vclav Prokop Divi worked like

lightning rod

Athanasius Kircher

Juan Ignacio Molina (17401829)Jesuit naturalist, historian, botanist,

ornithologist and geographer

Louis Morri (16431680)17th century encyclopaedist

Thodore Moret (16021667)Jesuit mathematician and author of the

first mathematical dissertations ever defended in Prague; the lunar crater

Moretus is named after him. Landell de Moura (18611928)Inventor who was the first to accomplish

the transmission of the human voice by a wireless machine

Gabriel Mouton (16181694)Mathematician, astronomer, and early

proponent of the metric system

Jozef Murga (18641929)Contributed to wireless telegraphy and help

develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of information

and human voice

Jos Celestino Mutis (17321808)Botanist and mathematician who led

the Royal Botanical Expedition of the New World

Jean Franois Niceron (16131646)Mathematician who studiedgeometrical optics

Nicholas of Cusa (14011464)Cardinal, philosopher, jurist,

mathematician, and astronomer; one of the great geniuses and polymaths

of the 15th century

Julius Nieuwland (18781936)Holy Cross priest, known for his

contributions to acetylene research and its use as the basis for one type of

synthetic rubber, which eventually led to the invention of neoprene by

DuPont

Jean-Antoine Nollet (17001770)Physicist who discovered the

phenomenon of osmosis in natural membranes.

Hugo Obermaier (18771946)Distinguished prehistorian and

anthropologist who is known for his work on the diffusion of mankind in

Europe during the Ice Age, and in connection with north Spanish cave art

William of Ockham (c. 1288c. 1348)Franciscan Scholastic who

wrote significant works on logic, physics, and theology; known for

Ockham's Razor

Nicole Oresme (c. 13231382)One of the most famous and influential

philosophers of the later Middle Ages; economist, mathematician,

physicist, astronomer, philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lisieux, andcompetent translator; one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century

Barnaba Oriani (17521832)Geodesist, astronomer and scientist;

greatest achievement was his detailed research of the planet Uranus;

known for Oriani's theorem

Luca Pacioli (c. 14461517)Often regarded as the Father of

Accounting; published several works on mathematics

Ignace-Gaston Pardies (16361673)Physicist known for his correspondence with Newton and Descartes

Franciscus Patricius (15291597)Cosmic theorist, philosopher, and Renaissance scholar
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Medieval depiction of a spherical earth

Roger Boscovich

John Peckham (12301292)Archbishop of Canterbury and early

practitioner of experimental science

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (15801637)Astromer who discovered

the Orion Nebula; lunar crater Peirescius named in his honor

Stephen Joseph Perry (18331889)Jesuit astronomer and Fellow of the

Royal Society; made frequent observations of Jupiter's satellites, of stellaroccultations, of comets, of meteorites, of sun spots, and faculae
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Robert Grosseteste

Giambattista Pianciani (1784

1862)

Jesuit mathematician and physicist Giuseppe Piazzi (17461826)Theatine mathematician and astronomer who discovered Ceres, today known as

the largest member of the asteroid belt; also did important work cataloguing stars

Jean Picard (16201682)First person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy; also

developed what became the standard method for measuring the right ascension of a celestial object; The PICARD

mission, an orbiting solar observatory, is named in his honor

Edward Pigot (18581929)Jesuit seismologist and astronomer

Alexandre Guy Pingr (17111796)French astronomer and naval geographer; the crater Pingr on the Moon is

named after him, as is the asteroid 12719 Pingr

Jean Baptiste Franois Pitra (18121889)Bendedictine cardinal, archaeologist and theologian who noteworthy

for his great archaeological discoveries Charles Plumier (16461704)Considered one of the most important botanical explorers of his time

Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt (17281810)Jesuit astronomer and mathematician; granted the title of the King's

Astronomer; the crater Poczobutt on the Moon is named after him.

Lon Abel Provancher (18201892)Naturalist devoted to the study and description of the fauna and flora of

Canada; his pioneer work won for him the appellation of the "Father of Natural History in Canada"

Louis Receveur (17571788)Franciscan naturalist and astronomer; described as being as close as one could get

to being an ecologist in the 18th century

Franz Reinzer (16611708)Wrote an in-depth meteorological, astrological, and political compendium covering

topics such as comets, meteors, lightning, winds, fossils, metals, bodies of water, and subterranean treasures and

secrets of the earth Louis Rendu (17891859)Bishop who wrote an important book on the mechanisms of glacial motion; the

Rendu Glacier, Alaska, U.S. and Mount Rendu, Antarctica are named for him

Vincenzo Riccati (17071775)Italian mathematician and physicist

Matteo Ricci (15521610)One of the founding fathers of the Jesuit China Mission; co-author of the first

European-Chinese dictionary

Giovanni Battista Riccioli (15981671)Astronomer who authoredAlmagestum novum, an influential

encyclopedia of astronomy; The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body; created a

selenograph with Father Grimaldi that now adorns the entrance at the National Air and Space Museum in

Washington D.C.

Richard of Wallingford (1292-1336) - Renowned clockmaker and one of the initiators of Western Trigonometry
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Johannes Ruysch (c. 14601533)Explorer, cartographer, and astronomer who created the second oldest known

printed representation of the New World

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri (16671733)Jesuit mathematician and geometer

Johannes de Sacrobosco (c. 1195c. 1256)Irish monk and astronomer who wrote the authoritative medieval

astronomy text Tractatus de Sphaera; hisAlgorismus was the first text to introduce Hindu-Arabic numerals and

procedures into the European university curriculum; the lunar crater Sacrobosco is named after him

Gregoire de Saint-Vincent (15841667)Jesuit mathematician who made important contributions to the study of

the hyperbola

Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa (16181667)Jesuit mathematician who contributed to the understanding of

logarithms

Christoph Scheiner (c. 15731650)Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and inventor of the pantograph; wrote on a

wide range of scientific subjects

George Schoener (18641941)Became known in the United States as the "Padre of the Roses" for his

experiments in rose breeding

Gaspar Schott (16081666)Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and natural philosopher who is most widely known for

his works on hydraulic and mechanical instruments Franz Paula von Schrank (17471835)Botanist, entomologist, and prolific writer

Berthold Schwarz (c. 14th century)Franciscan friar and reputed inventor of gunpowder and firearms

Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita (16041660)Astronomer and optrician who built Kepler's telescope

George Mary Searle (18391918)Paulist astronomer and professor who discovered six galaxies

Angelo Secchi (18181878)Pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state

authoritatively that the Sun is a star

Alessandro Serpieri (18231885)Astronomer and seismologist who studied shooting stars, and was the first to

introduce the concept of the seismic radiant

Gerolamo Sersale (15841654)Jesuit astronomer and selenographer; his map of the moon can be seen in the

Naval Observatory of San Fernando; the lunar crater Sirsalis is named after him Benedict Sestini (18161890)Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and architect; studied sunspots and eclipses;

wrote textbooks on a variety of mathematical subjects

Ren Franois Walter de Sluse (16221685)Mathematician with a family of curves named after him

Lazzaro Spallanzani (17291799)Biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the

experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and essentially discovered echolocation; his research

of biogenesis paved the way for the investigations of Louis Pasteur

Valentin Stansel (16211705)Jesuit astronomer who made important observations of comets

Johan Stein (18711951)Jesuit astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, which he modernized and

relocated to Castel Gandolfo; the crater Stein on the far side of the Moon is named after him

Nicolas Steno (1638

1686)

Often called the father of geology and stratigraphy ("Steno's principles"); beatifiedby Pope John Paul II

Thomas Streit Fr. Tom is a researcher of Lymphatic Filariasis, a devastating parasitical infection causing horrific

limb deformity (Elephentiasis), at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases. He

oversees the Center's eradication efforts of Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti and is particularly focused on

understanding the transmission process and the implementation of prevention strategies.

Pope Sylvester II (c. 9461003)Prolific scholar who endorsed and promoted Arabic knowledge of arithmetic,

mathematics, and astronomy in Europe, reintroducing the abacus and armillary sphere which had been lost to

Europe since the end of the Greco-Roman era

Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593c. 1653)Jesuit astronomer who studied sunspots and published a work on

calendariography
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Ignacije Szentmartony (17181793)Jesuit cartographer, mathematician, and astronomer who became a member

of the expedition that worked on the rearrangement of the frontiers among colonies in South America

Andr Tacquet (16121660)Jesuit mathematician whose work laid the groundwork for the eventual discovery

of calculus

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (18811955)Jesuit paleontologist and geologist who took part in the discovery of

Peking Man

Francesco Lana de Terzi (c. 16311687)Referred to as the Father of Aeronautics for his pioneering efforts; he

also developed a blind writing alphabet prior to Braille.

Theodoric of Freiberg (c. 1250c. 1310)Dominican theologian and physicist who gave the first correct

geometrical analysis of the rainbow

Joseph Tiefenthaler (17101785)One of the earliest European geographers to write about India

Giuseppe Toaldo (17191797)Physicist who studied atmospheric electricity and did important work with

lightning rods; the asteroid 23685 Toaldo is named for him.

Jos Torrubia (c. 17001768)Linguist, scientist, collector of fossils and books, and writer on historical,

political and religious subjects

Franz de Paula Triesnecker (1745

1817)

Jesuit astronomer and director of the Vienna Observatory; published anumber of treatises on astronomy and geography; the crater Triesnecker on the Moon is named after him.

Basil Valentine (c. 15th century)Alchemist whom author James J. Walsh calls the father of modern

chemistry[5]

Luca Valerio (15521618)Jesuit mathematician who developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of

solid bodies

Pierre Varignon (16541722)Mathematician whose principle contributions were to statics and mechanics;

created a mechanical explanation of gravitation

Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822) - Discovered the Venturi effect

Fausto Veranzio (c. 15511617)Bishop, polymath, inventor, and lexicographer

Ferdinand Verbiest (1623

1688)

Jesuit astronomer and mathematician; designed what some claim to be the firstever self-propelled vehiclemany claim this as the world's first automobile

Francesco de Vico (18051848)Jesuit astronomer who discovered or co-discovered a number of comets; also

made observations of Saturn and the gaps in its rings; the lunar crater De Vico and the asteroid 20103 de Vico are

named after him

Vincent of Beauvais (c.1190c.1264)Wrote the most influential encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Jnos Vitz (archbishop) (c.14051472)Archbishop, astronomer, and mathematician

Martin Waldseemller (c. 14701520)German cartographer who, along with Matthias Ringmann, is credited

with the first recorded usage of the word America

Godefroy Wendelin (15801667)Astronomer who recognized that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of

Jupiter; the lunar crate Vendelinus is named in his honor Johannes Werner (14681522)Mathematician, astronomer, and geographer

Witelo (c. 1230after 1280, before 1314)Physicist, natural philosopher, and mathematician; lunar crater

Vitello named in his honor; hisPerspectiva powerfully influenced later scientists, in particular Johannes Kepler

Julian Tenison Woods (18321889)Passionist geologist and mineralogist

Theodor Wulf (18681946)Jesuit physicist who was one of the first experimenters to detect excess

atmospheric radiation

Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728-1805) - Jesuit botanist, mineralogist, and alpinist

John Zahm (18511921)Holy Cross Priest and South American explorer

Giuseppe Zamboni (17761846)Physicist who invented the Zamboni pile, an early electric battery similar to

the Voltaic pile
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Francesco Zantedeschi (17971873)Among the first to recognize the marked absorption by the atmosphere of

red, yellow, and green light; published papers on the production of electric currents in closed circuits by the

approach and withdrawal of a magnet, thereby anticipating Michael Faraday's classical experiments of 1831

Niccol Zucchi (15861670)Attempted to build a reflecting telescope in 1616; may have been the first to see

the belts on the planet Jupiter; corresponded with Kepler

Giovanni Battista Zupi (c. 15901650)Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and first person to discover that the

planet Mercury had orbital phases; the crater Zupus on the Moon is named after him

References

[1][1] Woods 2005

[2] Lindberg & Numbers 1986

[3][3] Wright 2004

[4][4] Heilbron 1999

[5][5] Walsh 2007

Citations

Heilbron, J. L. (1999). The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. Cambridge: Harvard

University Press.

Lindberg, David C.; Numbers, Ronald L., eds. (1986). God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter

Between Christianity and Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Walsh, James J. (2007). Catholic Churchmen in Science: Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who

Were among the Great Founders in Science. Kessinger. ISBN 978-0548532188.

Woods, Thomas E. (2005).How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Washington, DC: Regnery.

Wright, Jonathan (2004). God's Soldiers: Adventure, Politics, intrigue and Power: A History of the Jesuits.

London: HarperCollins.

Further reading Barr, Stephen M.Modern Physics and Ancient Faith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2006.

Broad, William J. "How the Church aided 'Heretical' Astronomy,"New York Times, October 19, 1999.

Feingold, Mordechai, ed.Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

Gilson, Etienne,Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970.

Grant, Edward. The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional, and

Intellectual Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Grant, Edward. God and Reason in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Hannam, James. The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution.

Washington, DC: Regnery, 2011.

Horn, Stephan Otto, ed. Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo. San

Francisco, CA: Ignatius, 2008.

Jaki, Stanley. The Savior of Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Jaki, Stanley. Science and Creation: From Eternal Cycles to an Oscillating University. Edinburgh: Scottish

Academic Press, 1986.

Lindberg, David C. The Beginnings of Western Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

MacDonnell, Joseph E.Jesuit Geometers. St. Louis: Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1989.

Schnborn, Christoph Cardinal. Chance or Purpose?: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith. San Francisco:

Ignatius, 2007.

Spitzer, Robert J.New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy.

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Walsh, James J. The Popes and Science. New York: Fordham University Press, 1911.
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