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Searching the Heavens and the Earth - The History of Jesuit Observatories (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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Searching the Heavens and the Earth - The History of Jesuit Observatories (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 286
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Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and
meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and
again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The
history of these observatories has never been published in a
complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were
established in Jesuit colleges.
During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western
scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was
through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these
countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and
China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of
Beijing.
In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were
established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and
geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories
in Africa, South America and the Far East.
Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the
history of these sciences.
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