https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_Catholic_cleric-scientists
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Medieval depiction of a spherical earth
Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist who
wrote one of the very first detailed and realistic descriptions of the new
world
Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist, and
architect.
American theologian,Roman Catholic priest, scientist and
author. Albacete was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was
a physicist by training.
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[6]
German Dominican friar and Bishop of
Regensberg who has been described as "one of the most famous precursors of
modern science in the High Middle Ages."[7] Patron saint of natural sciences; Works in physics, logic,
metaphysics, biology, and psychology.
Giulio Alenio published the map in Chinese Wanguo Quantu (萬國全圖, lit. "Complete map of all the
countries"), putting China at the center of the world map.
A life of Jesus by Giulio Alenio, 1637.
Italian jesuit theologian, astronomer and mathematician. He was sent to the Far East as a missionary and adopted a Chinese name
and customs. He wrote 25 books including a cosmography and a Life
of Jesus in Chinese.
Spanish Roman Catholic priest
and meteorologist who invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a
kind of microseismograph.
Novohispanic (New
Spain) Priest, scientist,
historian, cartographer, and meteorologist who wrote more than thirty treatises
on a variety of scientific subjects
Italian Priest and botanist who was one of the
first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology
Italian priest and director of the Ximenian
Observatory of Florence who also collaborated on the design of a prototype of
the internal combustion engine
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Nicolò Arrighetti (1709–1767) – Italian jesuit who wrote
treatises on light, heat, and electricity.
Italian Jesuit astronomer and physician who
served as director of the Collegio Romano observatory; The lunar crater Asclepi
is named after him.
Roger Bacon's circular diagrams relating to the scientific study of optics
Statue of Roger Bacon in the Oxford University
Museum
Franciscan friar who made significant
contributions to mathematics and optics and has been described as a forerunner
of modern scientific method.
Italian abbot, mathematician, and writer
Italian engineer, Piarist who is the possible inventor of the internal combustion
engine
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Bartholomeus Amicus (1562–1649) – or Bartolomeo
Amico or Bartholomeo d'Amici, Jesuit wrote on philosophy, mathematics,
astronomy, and the concept of vacuum and its relationship with God.
Italian Bartoli and fellow Jesuit astronomer
Niccolò Zucchi are credited as probably having been the first to see the
equatorial belts on the planet Jupiter
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Joseph Bayma (November, 1816 in Piedmont, Italy– February 7,
1892 at Santa Clara, California) – Jesuit known for work in stereochemistry
and mathematics
Italian jesuit professor of mathematics and
physics and court mathematician who did experimental work in physics
Italian jesuit philosopher, mathematician and
astronomer; lunar crater Bettinus named after him
Biancani's map of the moon shows only stylized 15 craters,
none of which are clearly recognizable or identifiable as actual craters.
Italian jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and
selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named
French jesuit who has 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.
Italian (Cistercian) botanist who contributed
to the fields of medicine and toxicology
Bohemian priest, mathematician, and logician
whose other interests included metaphysics, ideas, sensation, and truth.
Canon who was one of the founders of
mineralogy
Dominican friar, Bishop of Cervia, and
medieval Surgeon who made important contributions to antiseptic practice and
anaesthetics.
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Jesuit mathematician and astronomy who made
observations on the magnetic variation of the compass
The first page of figures fromTheoria Philosophiæ Naturalisfrom 1763. Figure 1 is the force curve which received so much attention from later natural philosophers such as Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, and Michael Faraday. The ordinate is force, with positive values being repulsive, and the abscissa is radial distance. Newton's gravitational attractive force is clearly seen at the far right of figure 1.
Jesuit polymath known for his contributions to
modern atomic theory and astronomy
Plate from Joachim Bouvet's Etat présent de la Chine (1697), 白晋 or 白進
French Jesuit sinologist and cartographer who
did his work in China
Jesuit who was one of the first westerners to
travel within the Chinese mainland, and the author of numerous works on Asian
fauna, flora and geography.
Drawings of Chinese fruit trees from Michael Boym's "Briefve Relation de la Chine" (Paris, 1654). Depicted are theCinnamomum cassia, the durian, and a variety of banana (or plantain) tree, with their Chinese names.
A squirrel (松鼠) chasing a green-haired turtle (綠毛龜), in Boym's Flora Sinensis
Archbishop of Canturbury and mathematician who
helped develop the mean speed theorem; one of the Oxford Calculators
American priest and astronomer who wrote
several books about science
French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist,
ethnologist and geologist.
Polish canon, polymath, mathematician,
astronomer, and physician; the most prominent Polish mathematician of the 17th
century
Priest, astronomer, and member of the Royal
Society; the Bullialdus crater is named in his honor
Priest who formulated early ideas of momentum
and inertial motion and sowed the seeds of the Copernican revolution in Europe
Italian jesuit wrote a lemmatization of the complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas(Index Thomisticus) which was later
digitalized by IBM.
Italian Jesuit mathematician; the crater
Cabeus is named in his honor
Priest & Irish scientist best known for
his work on the induction coil
Italian Franciscan friar who provided a
graphical analysis of the motion of accelerated bodies
Italian Jesuit mathematician who wrote on
astronomy and vacuums; The crater Casatus on the Moon is named after him.
French Priest who was the probable namesake of
the Cassegrain telescope; The crater Cassegrain on the Moon is named after him
Italian Benedictine mathematician; long-time
friend and supporter of Galileo Galilei, who was his teacher; wrote an
important work on fluids in motion
Italian Jesuate known for his work on the
problems 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
Sterculia balanghas from
the 1790 edition of Monadelphiæ
classis dissertationes decemby Antonio José Cavanilles.
Priest and leading Spanish taxonomic botanist
of the 18th century
Italian Jesuit zoologist and mathematician
Italian Jesuit mathematician and professor who
wrote treatises on geometry, gravity, and arithmetic
German respected Jesuit Astronomer and
mathematician who headed the commission that yielded the Gregorian calendar;
wrote influential astronomical textbook.
American Jesuit astronomer and planetary
scientist
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region
that had been a part of the Kingdom of Poland since
1466. Renaissance astronomer
and canon famous for his heliocentric cosmology that set in motion the
Copernican Revolution.
Franciscan cosmographer, cartographer,
encyclopedist, and globe-maker. He spent most
of his life in Venice.
American Jesuit astronomer and former director
of the Vatican Observatory
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James
Cullen (mathematician) (19 April 1867 – 7 December 1933) was born at Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.) – Jesuit mathematician who published what is
now known as Cullen numbers in number theory
Irish Jesuit who was the first director of
Georgetown Observatory and determined the latitude and longitude of Washington
D.C.
Amussis Ferdinandea, 1662
German 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.
Swiss 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
French Priest and astronomer best known for
his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and
1769.
Dominican mathematician, astronomer,
cosmographer, and cartographer
·
The dove tree (Davidia involucrata)
was discovered by and named after Armand David
Lazarist priest, zoologist, and botanist who
did important work in these fields in China. Born in Ezpeleta near Bayonne, in the north ofBasque Country, in Pyrénées-Atlantiquesdépartement of France
Barnabite meteoro Francesco Denza was born on June 7, 1834 in Naples. logist. Astronomer, and director of Vatican
Observatory
Czech priest who studied electrical
phenomenons and constructed, among other inventions, the first electrified
musical instrument in history
Spanish Jesuit priest who was president of the
Royal Society of Mathematics, member of the Royal Academy of Natural, Physical,
and Exact Sciences, and one of the foremost mathematicians of his country.
Priest and 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". Dzierzon came from Upper Silesia. Born into a
family of ethnic Polish [1][2]background which did not
speak German but a Silesian dialect of the Polish
language,[3] he has been variously
described as having been of Polish, German, or Silesian nationality.
Italian priest and mathematician beatified by
Pope John Paul II
French Jesuit mathematician and physicist
Jesuit mathematician who determined the center
of gravity of the sector of a circle for the first time. He was born in Antwerp (Belgium), 1 March 1597
and died in Barcelona (Spain), 4 November 1652,
was a Flemish Jesuit priest from Brabant, and a mathematician of repute.
Canon and 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.
Commemorative plaque on birthplace (Sopron, Hungary)
Monument to Gyula Fényi (Kalocsa, Hungary).
Hungarian Jesuit astronomer and director of
the Haynald Observatory; noted for his observations of the sun; The crater
Fényi on the Moon is named after him
(1660,Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 18
April 1732) was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer,
geographer, and botanist.
Benedictine priest, born in the village of Achleuthen[3]near Kremsmünster, Austria, and one of the first astronomers to compute the orbit of Uranus
Italian Priest, mathematician, and astronomer
who did significant work in hydraulics
Argentine Jesuit astronomer and current
director of the Vatican Observatory
Priest and physicst born in Vieste and working
in Neaples
Dominican professor who wrote on aeronautics,
hailstorms, and airships
French scholar, abbot, and member of Academie
des sciences
French priest, astronomer, and mathematician
who published the first data on the transit of Mercury; best known intellectual
project attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity
Italian Franciscan physician and psychologist;
founded Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan
German/Austrian Canon, mathematician, and astronomer who compiled astronomical
tables; Asteroid 15955 Johannesgmunden named in his honor
Spanist Priest, polymath, mathematician,
astronomer, and cartographer; drew the first map of all of New Spain
Scottish Benedictine monk, physicist, and
inventor, who made the first electric motor
Austrian Jesuit astronomer after whom the
crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named; verified Galileo's discovery of
Jupiter's moons.
Italian Jesuit who discovered the diffraction
of light (indeed coined the term "diffraction"), investigated the
free fall of objects, and built and used instruments to measure geological
features on the moon
Bishop who was one of the most knowledgeable
men of the Middle Ages; has been called "the first man ever to write down
a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment."[8]
Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who
discovered the Guldinus theorem to determine the surface and the volume of a
solid of revolution
Potuguese Jesuit known for his early work on
lighter-than-air airship design
Autrian Jesuit director of the Georgetown and
Vatican Observatories; The crater Hagen on the Moon is named after him. Naturalized American citizen
French priest, natural philosopher, and
secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences
Hungarian Jesuit astronomer and director of
the Vienna Observatory; the crater Hell on the Moon is named after him.
Polish priest, Templeton Prize winner, and
prolific writer on numerous scientific topics
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Lorenz Hengler (1806–1858) – Priest often credited as
the inventor of the horizontal pendulum. Hengler was
born in Reichenhofen, Württemberg.
·
An artistic rendering of "Herman the Lame" as he
is sometimes called
Benedictine historian, music theorist,
astronomer, and mathematician
French Jesuit missionary and zoologist who
studied the natural history of Eastern Asia
Priest and botanist who discovered several new
kinds of plants, and certain genera have been named after him. He was born in Idria, Carniola, then in Austria (now Slovenia), the son of a mining official.
Italian Priest and astronomer who catalogued
nebulous objects and developed an early microscope
French-Canadian Priest, naturalist, educator,
writer, and promoter of the natural sciences
German Augustinian physicist and director of
the Munich Academy of Sciences
Italian Piarist astronomer who has a valley on
the moon named after him as well as a crater
French Franciscan mathematician and physicist;
at his death he was connected with nearly all the great scientific and literary
societies of Europe
Hungarian Benedictine priest and prolific
writer who wrote on the relationship between science and theology
Hungarian Benedictine engineer, physicist, and
inventor; considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the
dynamo and electric motor
Czech Jesuit missionary and botanist who
established the first pharmacy in the Philippines
German Benedictine Monk of Buckfast Abbey,
England. Beekeeper. World authority on bee breeding, developer of the Buckfast
bee.
Italian Jesuit missionary, mathematician,
astronomer and cartographer who drew maps based on his explorations first
showing that California was not an island as then believed and who published an
astronomical treatise in Mexico City of his observations of the Kirsch comet.
German Priest acknowledged for his work in
asteroid orbit calculations; the main belt asteroid 1780 Kippes was named in
his honour
Jesuit who has been called the father of
Egyptology and "Master of a hundred arts"; wrote an encyclopedia of
China; one of the first people to observe microbes through a microscope
Jesuit astronomer and missionary who published
observations of comets. His name in China was Qi Weicai (祁維材).
Polish Priest, naturalist agronomist, and
entomologist who wrote a multi-volume work on Polish animal life
Austrian Benedictine professor who wrote on
astronomy, physics, and meteorology
Jesuit chemist, mathematician, and
Assyriologist who is most noted for his studies of cuneiform tablets and
Babylonian astronomy
Majorcan writer and philosopher, logician and
a Franciscan tertiary considered a pioneer of computation theory
French deacon and astronomer noted for
cataloguing stars, nebulous objects, and constellations
Belgian Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and
founder of the first Scientific Society in India
French Oratorian philosopher and mathematician
who wrote on the parallelogram of forces
French Priest and entomologist whose works
describing insects assigned many of the insect taxa still in use today
English priest, humanist, translator, and
physician
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Francis Line (1595–1675) – also known as Linus of Liège, was born in
1595, most probably in London, or Buckinghamshire.
Jesuit priest and
scientist, inventing magnetic clock and
sundial maker who disagreed with some of the findings of Newton and Boyle
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Mathesis nova, 1670
Spanish Cistercian who wrote on a variety of
scientific subjects, including probability theory
French Benedictine monk and scholar,
considered the founder of palaeography and diplomatics
"The best-known American Jesuit seismologist"
and "one of the most honored practitioners of the science of all
time"; wrote the first textbook on seismology in America.
Archaeologist who investigated the
Palaeolithic remains at Kents Cavern.
American Jesuit astronomer and director of
Georgetown Observatory; the crater McNally on the Moon is named after him.
Maltese Jesuit ethnographer, archaeologist and
writer; one of Malta's pioneers in archaeology
French Minim physicist and professor of
medicine who published works on gnomonics and perspective
Belgian 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
French Oratorian philosopher who studied
physics, optics, and the laws of motion and disseminated the ideas of Descartes
and Leibniz
Polish Priest, physician, pharmacist, and
botanist
Belgian Jesuit philosopher and psychologist
Canadian Christian Brother and botanist best
known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal
French Priest and physicist who recognized
Boyle's Law and wrote about the nature of color
Italian Benedictine who made contributions to
the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy, and
gave the first known proof by mathematical induction.
He was born in Modřice, Moravia. Jesuit astronomer most noted for pioneering
the study of binary stars
Irish Theoretical Physicist, Pontifical
Academician, Monsignor
Augustinian monk and father of genetics
Italian Priest and mathematician who first
posed the famous Basel Problem
Italian Priest, volcanologist, and director of
the Vesuvius Observatory who is best remembered today for his Mercalli scale
for measuring earthquakes which is still in use
Minim philosopher, mathematician, and music
theorist who is often referred to as the "father of acoustics"
Bishop of Fossombrone who wrote important
works on the reform of the calendar. Paul was born
in 1446 at Middelburg, the ancient
capital of the province of Zeeland, belonging then to the Holy Roman Empire, now to the Netherlands.
Polish Canon who wrote the first accurate
geographical and ethnographical description of Eastern Europe, as well as two
medical treatises
French Jesuit physicist and mathematician; was
an expositor of science and translator rather than an original investigator
Chilean Jesuit naturalist, historian,
botanist, ornithologist and geographer
French, 17th century priest and encyclopaedist
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Théodore Moret (1602–1667) – Belgian Jesuit
mathematician and author of the first mathematical dissertations ever defended
in Prague; the lunar crater Moretus is named after him.
Brazilian Priest and inventor who was the
first to accomplish the transmission of the human voice by a wireless machine
French Abbot, mathematician, astronomer, and
early proponent of the metric system
Slovak Priest who contributed to wireless
telegraphy and help develop mobile communications and wireless transmission of
information and human voice
Spanish Canon, botanist, and mathematician who
led the Royal Botanical Expedition of the New World
French Minim mathematician who studied
geometrical optics
Cardinal, philosopher, jurist, mathematician,
astronomer, and one of the great geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century
Belgian-born 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
French Abbot and physicist who discovered the
phenomenon of osmosis in natural membranes.
Priest, prehistorian, and anthropologist who
is known for his work on the diffusion of mankind in Europe during the Ice Age,
as well as his work with north Spanish cave art. Hugo
Obermaier spent his childhood and the early part of his student years in Regensburg
Franciscan Scholastic who wrote significant
works on logic, physics, and theology; known for Ockham's Razor
One of the most famous and influential
philosophers of the later Middle Ages; economist, mathematician, physicist,
astronomer, philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lisieux, and competent
translator; one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century
Italian, Barnabite geodesist, astronomer and
scientist whose greatest achievement was his detailed research of the planet
Uranus, and is also known for Oriani's theorem
American Priest, neuroscientist and writer
Italian Franciscan friar who published several
works on mathematics and is often regarded as the Father of Accounting
French Jesuit physicist known for his
correspondence with Newton and Descartes
Croatian Priest, cosmic theorist, philosopher,
and Renaissance scholar
Archbishop of Canterbury and early
practitioner of experimental science. He was a
native of Sussex who was educated at Lewes Priory and became a Friar Minor about 1250.
French Abbot and astromer who discovered the
Orion Nebula; lunar crater Peirescius named in his honor
English Jesuit astronomer and Fellow of the
Royal Society; made frequent observations of Jupiter's satellites, of stellar
occultations, of comets, of meteorites, of sun spots, and faculae
Italian Theatine mathematician and astronomer
who discovered Ceres, today known as the largest member of the asteroid belt;
also did important work cataloguing stars
French Priest and 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
Irish-born Autralian Jesuit seismologist and
astronomer
French priest astronomer and naval geographer;
the crater Pingré on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 12719
Pingré
Priest whose current research includes the
application of insights from autism and social cognition to 'second-person'
accounts of moral perception and character formation. His previous scientific
research contributed to the DELPHI experiment at CERN
French Bendedictine cardinal, archaeologist
and theologian who noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries
French botanist, Minim friar who is considered
one of the most important botanical explorers of his time
Polist-Lithuanian Jesuit astronomer and
mathematician; granted the title of the King's Astronomer; the crater Poczobutt
on the Moon is named after him.
Priest and 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"
French Franciscan naturalist and astronomer;
described as being as close as one could get to being an ecologist in the 18th
century
Austrian Jesuit who 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
French 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
Italian Jesuit mathematician and physicist
Map of the Far East by Matteo Ricci in 1602
One of the founding fathers of the Jesuit
China Mission and co-author of the first European-Chinese dictionary
Italian Jesuit astronomer who authored Almagestum
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 is measuring with a pair of
compasses in this 14th-century miniature.
English Abbot, renowned clockmaker, and one of
the initiators of western trigonometry
Ruysch's 1507 map of the world.
Priest, explorer, cartographer, and astronomer
who created the second oldest known printed representation of the New World
Italian Jesuit mathematician and geometer
Irish monk and astronomer who wrote the
authoritative medieval astronomy textTractatus de Sphaera; his Algorismus was
the first text to introduce Hindu-Arabic numerals and procedures into the
European university curriculum; the lunar crater Sacrobosco is named after him
Flemish Jesuit mathematician who made
important contributions to the study of the hyperbola
Jesuit mathematician who contributed to the
understanding of logarithms
Pantograph
A sunspot-instrument by Scheiner (printed between
1626-1630)
Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and inventor of
the pantograph; wrote on a wide range of scientific subjects
Austrian priest, linguist, anthropologist, and
ethnologist.
Germnan-born Priest who became known in the
United States as the "Padre of the Roses" for his experiments in rose
breeding
Germain Jesuit physicist, astronomer, and
natural philosopher who is most widely known for his works on hydraulic and
mechanical instruments
German Priest, botanist, entomologist, and
prolific writer
German Franciscan friar and reputed inventor
of gunpowder and firearms
Czech Capuchin astronomer and optrician who
built Kepler's telescope
American Paulist astronomer and professor who
discovered six galaxies
Italian Jesuit pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy,
and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the sun is a star
Italian Priest, astronomer, and seismologist
who studied shooting stars, and was the first to introduce the concept of the
seismic radiant
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Gerolamo Sersale (1584–1654) – Italian 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
Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and
architect; studied sunspots and eclipses; wrote textbooks on a variety of
mathematical subjects
Canon and mathematician with a family of
curves named after him. He was born in Visé, Belgium and studied at the University of Leuven(1638–1642) before receiving a master's degree in law from
the University of Rome, La
Sapienza in 1643
Spanish Dominican priest and professor at
the University of
Salamanca; in his commentaries
toAristotle he proposed that free falling bodies undergo constant
acceleration
Italian Priest, 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
Czech Jesuit astronomer who made important
observations of comets
Dutch 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
Illustration from Steno's 1667 paper comparing
the teeth of a shark head with a fossil tooth
Bishop beatified by Pope John Paul II who is
often called the father of geology[9] and stratigraphy,[7]and is known for Steno's principles
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
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Alexius Sylvius
Polonus (1593 – c. 1653)
– Polish Jesuit astronomer who studied sunspots and published a work on
calendariography
·
Ignacije Szentmartony (1718–1793) – Croatian 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
Jesuit mathematician whose work laid the
groundwork for the eventual discovery of calculus
French Jesuit paleontologist and geologist who
took part in the discovery of Peking Man
Italian Jesuit referred to as the Father of
Aviation[10] for his pioneering efforts; he also developed a blind
writing alphabet prior to Braille.
German Dominican theologian and physicist who
gave the first correct geometrical analysis of the rainbow
Jesuit who was one of the earliest European
geographers to write about India. Born in Bozen, in the county of Tyrol, then in the
Austrian empire, not much is known of his early life and studies except that he
spent two years in Spain.
Italian Priest and physicist who studied
atmospheric electricity and did important work with lightning rods; the
asteroid 23685 Toaldo is named for him.
Spanish Franciscan linguist, scientist,
collector of fossils and books, and writer on historical, political and
religious subjects
Austrian Jesuit astronomer and director of the
Vienna Observatory; published a number of treatises on astronomy and geography;
the crater Triesnecker on the Moon is named after him.
Italian Jesuit mathematician who developed
ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies
French Priest and mathematician whose principle
contributions were to statics and mechanics; created a mechanical explanation
of gravitation
French Minim friar inventor and artist who was
responsible for the creation of impressive and innovative automata and machines
such as the first completely automated loom.
Italian Priest who discovered the Venturi
effect
Hungarian Bishop, polymath, inventor, and
lexicographer
Jesuit astronomer and mathematician; designed
what some claim to be the first ever self-propelled vehicle – many claim this
as the world's first automobile. He is known He
was born inPittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders (now
part ofBelgium) as Nan Huairen (南懷仁) in Chinese.
Italian 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
Dominican who wrote the most influential
encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
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Benito Viñes
(1837–1893) –
Jesuit meteorologist who made the first
weather model to predict the trajectory of a hurricane.[11][12][13]
Hungarian Archbishop, astronomer, and
mathematician
German priest and cartographer who, along with
Matthias Ringmann, is credited with the first recorded usage of the word America
Flemish (Danish) Priest and astronomer who
recognized that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter; the
lunar crate Vendelinus is named in his honor
German Priest, mathematician, astronomer, and
geographer
Friar, physicist, natural philosopher, and
mathematician; lunar crater Vitello named in his honor; his Perspectiva powerfully
influenced later scientists, in particular Johannes Kepler
English Passionist geologist and mineralogist
Germain Jesuit physicist who was one of the
first experimenters to detect excess atmospheric radiation
Holy Cross priest and South American explorer.
He was born at New Lexington, Ohio, and died inMunich, Germany.
Italian Priest and physicist who invented the
Zamboni pile, an early electric battery similar to the Voltaic pile
Italian Priest who was 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[14]
Italian claimed to have tried to build a reflecting telescope in 1616 but abandoned the idea (maybe
due to the poor quality of the mirror).[15] May have been the first to see the belts on the planet
Jupiter (1630).[16]
Italian 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.
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