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| − | <div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"> Many early scientists were Jesuit priests and since the map of the Moon that was accepted as the basis of nomenclature was was made by a Jesuit ([[Riccioli|Riccioli]]), an unusually large number of Jesuit scientists are honored with lunar craters. <span class="membersnap">- | + | <div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"> Many early scientists were Jesuit priests and since the map of the Moon that was accepted as the basis of nomenclature was was made by a Jesuit ([[Riccioli|Riccioli]]), an unusually large number of Jesuit scientists are honored with lunar craters. <span class="membersnap">- tychocrater <small>Sep 15, 2007</small></span><br /> <br /> |
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<br /> This page is based on a list of [http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/lunacrat.htm 35 Jesuit astronomers] honored on the Moon prepared by the late [http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/ Joseph F. MacDonnell], of Fairfield University. MacDonnell included two unofficial names used by [[Wilkins%20and%20Moore|Wilkins and Moore]], but missed several others.<br /> <br /> | <br /> This page is based on a list of [http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/lunacrat.htm 35 Jesuit astronomers] honored on the Moon prepared by the late [http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/ Joseph F. MacDonnell], of Fairfield University. MacDonnell included two unofficial names used by [[Wilkins%20and%20Moore|Wilkins and Moore]], but missed several others.<br /> <br /> | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:41, 15 April 2018
Many early scientists were Jesuit priests and since the map of the Moon that was accepted as the basis of nomenclature was was made by a Jesuit (Riccioli), an unusually large number of Jesuit scientists are honored with lunar craters. - tychocrater Sep 15, 2007
- Asclepi
- Bettinus
- Billy
- Blancanus
- Boscovich
- Cabeus
- Casatus
- Clavius
- Curtius
- Cysatus
- De Vico
- Fényi
- Furnerius
- Grimaldi
- Gruemberger
- Hagen
- Hell
- Kircher
- Kugler
- Malapert
- C. Mayer
- McNally
- Moretus
- Petavius
- Poczobutt
- Riccioli
- Riccius
- Scheiner
- Schomberger
- Secchi
- Simpelius
- Sirsalis
- Stein
- Tacquet
- Tannerus
- Triesnecker
- Zucchius
- Zupus
This page is based on a list of 35 Jesuit astronomers honored on the Moon prepared by the late Joseph F. MacDonnell, of Fairfield University. MacDonnell included two unofficial names used by Wilkins and Moore, but missed several others.
