It happened on JULY 15

Today is the liturgical feast of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274). He was a Franciscan superior, theologian, and bishop and is a Doctor of the Church. Through his Neoplatonic paradigm he sought a synthesis between the observations of nature and the human soul’s ascent to God, as found in his work The Journey of the Mind into God. He also wrote an important series of sermons commenting on Genesis, regarding the seven days of creation, in which elements from the scientific culture of his time appear along with several striking metaphors from the Book of Nature.
1959
Agostino Gemelli died in Milan. He graduated in medicine from the University of Pavia and then, in 1903, entered the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor. He continued his studies, immersing himself in biology, physiology, and psychiatry. He founded the University of the Sacred Heart of which he was rector. He was also the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences after its reformation by Pope Pius XI in 1936.

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On the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology


Readings on Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction, by Gabiele Coci

Matter and Light. The New Physics (1937), by Louis de Broglie

The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science (1970), by Werner Heisenberg

Quantum Mechanics (2002), by John Polkinghorne, from INTERS 

Faith and Quantum Theory (2007), by Stephen Barr

Quantum Mechanics. Philosophical and Theological Implications (2019), by Javier Sánchez Cañizares, from INTERS


Articles of Historical Interest

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? (1935), by A. Einstein, B. Podolski, N. Rosen

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox (1964), by J.S. Bell

Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities (1982), by A. Aspect, P. Grangier and G. Roger

Moreover…

Pursuing Scientific Humanism. Letters Between Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Cantore, 1967-1976, a forthcoming book edited by Claudio Tagliapietra, INTERS staff

    

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