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 [...]
The Beautiful Gate
Today's Epistle Reading Acts 3:1-10 Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer. And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them [...]
O Happy Fault
Pictures from the National Gallery of Art...
Catholic scientists and the Easter calendar
“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 [...]
What is sight?
I remember my mother telling me that objects don’t really have color. The blue I see on a street sign is really just light bouncing off the sign and entering my eyes. My brain interprets those particular rays as blue because of the way they bounce. The blue is in my eyes not on the [...]
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