Catholic churchmen in science
Subtitle: sketches of the lives of Catholic ecclesiastics who were among the great founders in science
By: by James J. Walsh.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: American Ecclesiastical Review
Published: 1910
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Scientists -- Biography.; Religion and science.; Catholic scientists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The supposed oppostion of science and religion; value: Copernicus and his times; value: Basil Valentine : founder of modern chemistry; value: Linacre : scholar, physician, priest; value: Father Kircher, S.J. : scientist, orientalist, and collector; value: Bishop Stensen : anatomist and father of geology; value: Abbé Haüy : father of cyrstallography; value: Abbot Mendel : a new outlook in heredity.