Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014

Agustín Udías holds a PhD in geophysics from Saint Louis University (1964) and a doctorate in physics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1971), where he is a professor emeritus. As well as writing extensively on the history of the Jesuits’ involvement in science, Udías has also published articles on earthquake source mechanism, seismicity, and seismotectonics.

• Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014Agustín UdíasAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 A New Beginning3 Science in the Training of Jesuits and the Tension between Scholastic Philosophy and Modern Science4 Science in Jesuit Universities, Colleges, and Secondary Schools5 The New Observatories6 The Earth’s Magnetism7 Jesuit Meteorological Stations8 Tropical Hurricanes9 Earthquakes and Seismology10 The Tradition in Mathematics11 The New Naturalists and Biologists12 Jesuit Scientists in Non-Jesuit Institutions13 Recent Developments14 Jesuit Scientists and Ignatian Spirituality15 ConclusionBibliography

“By establishing the who’s who and what’s what of modern Jesuit science, Udías is effectively clearing the ground for other scholars, much in the spirit of the series in which it appeared […]. For those who are venturing for the first time on the territory of modern Jesuit science, I recommend this work as a mine of research topics.” - Jean-Olivier Richard, University of Toronto, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 694-697