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Maria Agnesi, mathematician who wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus, was born this week on 16th May 1...

Gerbert d'Aurillac the prolific scholar and teacher, who became Pope Sylvester II died this week on 12th may 1003. #Catholic #Science #Ma...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the founder of modern neurobiology and Nobel Prize Winner, was born this week on May 1, 1852. #Catholic #Science ...

Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer died this week on 25th April...

John Baptist Riccioli, Jesuit priest and astronomer, was born this week, on 17th April 1598. He is best known for his selenograph.

Jean Baptiste André Dumas chemist, politician, and defender of the faith died this week on 10th Apr 1884. #Catholic #Science #Chemistry

This week, on April 2, 1845, French physicists Louis Fizeau and Leon Foucault made the first successful photographs of the sun. #Catholic...

Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian priest, physicist and pioneer in practical electromagnetic physics died this week on 29th Mar 1873. #Cath...

Urbain Le Verrier, the astronomer and mathematician who used celestial mechanics to discover the planet Neptune, was born this week on 11...

Jean-François Champollion, the Father of Egyptology, died this week on 4th March 1832. #Catholic #Science #Egyptology