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| Louis Pasteur | a great Priest - Scientist |
| Roger Bacon | a Franciscan admired for his work in Mathematics and Optics |
| Opus Maius | Bacon observed, 'Without experiment, nothing can be adequately known. |
| Opus Tertium | the strongest arguments prove nothing, if not verified by experiment. |
| Saint Albert the Great | patron Saint of all who cultivate the natural sciences |
| Robert Grosseteste | first man to write down a complete set of steps for performing a scientific experiment. |
| Jesuits | contributed to the development of clocks, pantographs, telescopes and other scientific equipment |
| Charles Bossut | one of the first historians of mathematics |
| Jesuit observatory | they studies astronomy, geomagnetism, etc. |
| Father Giambattista Riccioli | first person to determine the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body. |
| Pendulum | with this instrument, Fr. Riccioli was able to calculate the constant gravity |
| Fr. Francesco Maria Grimaldi | discovered the diffraction of light |
| Father Roger Boscovich | appointed professor of mathematics at the Collegio |
| Pope Benedict XIV | ascended to the Papal Throne in 1740 |
| Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga | was a Secretary of State who strongly supported Father Boscovisch |
| Theory of Natural Philosophy | the theory to understand the structure of the universe with the reference to a single idea |
| Father Athanasius Kircher | called the real founder of 'Egyptology' |
| Father Frederich Louis Odenbach | developed idea of Jesuit Seismological service |
| John Flamsteed | an astronomer of Royal England |
| Almagestum | testimony to Jesuit's willingness to depart from Aristotelian astronomical ideas. |
