Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits

by Thomas Hughes

[178] The medal is in the Coleman Museum of the Georgetown University, where De Vico, with Sestini, was astronomer for some time.

[179] For an historical sketch of Bavarian Jesuits, under the aspect of scientific eminence, see Monumenta Germaniæ Pædagogica, vol. ix, pp. 445-6, where Father Pachtler gives the Prospectus of a new scientific and literary review, to be issued in Bavaria, 1772. The Suppression forestalled it.

[180] Histoire des Mathematiques, t. iv, p. 347; quoted by Crétineau-Joly, t. iv, c. 4, p. 283, who contains a large amount of literature upon this subject. According to late researches, made by MM. C. André and G. Rayet, astronomers of the observatory of Paris, the number of observatories established in the whole world, towards the close of the last century, was 130. Of this number, 32 were founded by Jesuits, or were under their direction.—Victor Van Tricht, La Bibliothèque des Écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, etc., appendice 1^er, p. 221; 1876.

[181] Constitutiones, pars iv, c. 13, n. 4.

[182] Bollandists, J. P., n. 871.

[183] Monumenta Germaniæ Pædagogica, vol. v, p. 151 seq.

[184] Ratio St., Reg. Prov. 28; Monumenta Germaniæ Pædagogica, vol. v, p. 260.

[185] Ibid., vol. ix, p. 59.

[186] Ibid., vol. v, Rt. St. 1586, Humanitatis Magistri, n. 5, p. 153.

[187] Monumenta Germaniæ Pædagogica, vol. ii, p. 415.