The Society of Catholic Scientists has a “set of curated biographies” of Catholic scientists on their website. https://catholicscientists.org/ I don’t know the basis for their choices. Their list isn’t exhaustive, of course. They have about 300 people on it. When I was working on a list twenty years ago I had 180 names that I [...]
Saint Albert the Great whose Feast Day is tomorrow, November 15, studied the natural world and wrote extensively about his findings. He said, "In studying nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may, as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power: we have rather [...]
Louvre, Virgin of the Rocks 1483-1486 Leonardo da Vinci Louvre, Paris Wikipedia/public domain London Virgin of the Rocks 1495-1508 Leonardo da Vinci National Gallery London Wikipedia/public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks A friend of mine and I were discussing the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, possibly because the Catholic Church just celebrated the [...]
The Society of Catholic Scientists has a list of Catholic scientists with short biographies attached. They state that their list is specifically about scientists who "made important contributions or breakthroughs" to some branch of science (or, I assume, mathematics). I've worked on lists like this for twenty-five years so I was fascinated to look through [...]
“Theory can be very useful as a way of piecing together what is unusual … It can help us interpret what we are finding. It can also lead to dead ends and wasted time and resources.” https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/making-bog-bodies-dull/ Two Catholic scientists from the 1400’s spent their lives working on a celestial problem using theories based upon [...]
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