Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

Herbert Butterfield, the influential twentieth-century historian, identified the Scientific Revolution as “one of the great episodes in human history,” which, along with the rise of the empires of Alexander the Great and ancient Rome, deserves a place “amongst the epic adventures that have helped to make the human race what it is.”[ref]Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of Modern Science. New York: The Free Press, 1965.191.[/ref] Numerous Catholic scientists, both laymen and churchmen... Read More