The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange–all sponsored by the Church–provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as ‘the Jesuit Science.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.