Category

Jesuit scientists

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist

Italian Catholic missionary (1552–1610)

Athanasius Kircher

German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)

Ruđer Josip Bošković

Croat physicist (1711–1787)

Italian astronomer

Christopher Clavius

German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

16th century Italian theologian and astronomer

Francesco Maria Grimaldi

Italian physicist (1618–1663)

Christoph Scheiner

Jesuit father, physicist and astronomer (*1575 – †1650)

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Italian Jesuit and mathematician

Ferdinand Verbiest

Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China (1623–1688)

Johann Adam Schall von Bell

German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China

José de Acosta

Spanish missionary and writer (1539 or 1540–1600)

Swiss mathematician and astronomer

Juan Ignacio Molina

Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer (1740-1829)

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

Austrian scientist (1728-1805)

Italian Jesuit missionary

João de Loureiro

Portuguese scientist and botanist

Christian Mayer

Czech-German astronomer

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent

Jesuit, mathematician

Maximilian Hell

Slovak-Hungarian Jesuit, astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (1720–1792)

Niccolò Zucchi

Itlain Jesuit astronomer and physicist

Georg Joseph Kamel

Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary (1661-1706)

Jesuit missionary into China

Giovanni Battista Zupi

Italian astronomer

Giuseppe Biancani

Italian mathematician and selenographer

missionary (1582–1649)

José Gabriel Funes

Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer

Austrian entomologist and writer

Daniello Bartoli

Italian Jesuit cleric-scientist

Giuseppe Asclepi

Italian astronomer and physician

Johann Baptist Cysat

Swiss Jesuit mathematician and astronomer (1585-1657)

German missionary active in China (1576-1630)

Johann Georg Hagen

Austrian-American Jesuit priest and astronomer (1847-1930)

Francesco Lana de Terzi

Italian physicist and mathematician

Vincenzo Riccati

Italian mathematician and physicist (1707-1775)

Jacques de Billy

French mathematician (1602-1679)

François d'Aguilon

architect, mathematician, physicist (1567-1617)

Austrian Jesuit missionary and explorer of China and Tibet (1623-1680), an imperial astronomer in China

Joseph Maréchal

Belgian Jesuit priest and philosopher (1878–1944)

Italian mathematician (1648-1737)

Francesco Cetti

Italian scientist

Franz de Paula Triesnecker

Austrian astronomer

Austrian entomologist (1859-1931)

Louis Bertrand Castel

Mathematician, philosopher

American astronomer (1933–2020)

Italian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher

Filippo Bonanni

Jesuit priest and scientist 1638-1723 (1638–1725)

Francesco de Vico

Italian astronomer (1805-1848)

French mathematician (1607-1688)

mathematician, priest

Charles Malapert

1581-1630 astronomer and writer

Italian Jesuit philosopher (1586-1650)

Franz Xaver Kugler

German academic (1862-1929)

Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt

Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, professor and rector of Vilnius University (1728-1810)

Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche

French astronomer

Adam Adamandy Kochański

Polish mathematician (1631-1700)

Giovanni Battista Ferrari

Italian botanist, scholar and priest (1584-1655)

Leonardo Ximenes

Italian mathematician

French Jesuit active in China