APPENDIX VI.

ASTRONOMY AND THE CHURCH; SOME ROMAN ASTRONOMERS. [469]

No formal list of Papal astronomers available. The roll of names inastronomy connected in some way with the Popes almost as distinguishedas that of Papal Physicians: Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus, Nicholas ofCusa, Regiomontanus, Toscanelli, Archbishop Antoninus, Clavius, theRoman College, Scheiner, Ricci, Athanasius Kircher, Thomas Leseur,Franz Jacquier, Boscovitch, Le Maire, Gilii, Beccaria, Piazzi, Secchi,De Vico, Sestini, Denza, Lais, Rodriguez, Hagan.

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