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Raymond Lully died in Bougie (in present-day Algeria). He was a Franciscan missionary in northern Africa and Asia after studying Arabic and Hebrew. Lully was a man of vast interests, writing works on mysticism, philosophy, logic, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and pedagogy. He contributed to the development of science in the first medieval universities.
 

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Angelo Secchi was born in Reggio Emilia. He was a Jesuit priest and astronomer. Formed in England and the United States, in 1849 he assumed direction of the Observatory at the Roman College in Rome. With Pietro Tacchini and Lorenzo Respighi, he founded the Society of Italian Spectroscopy Society from which came to be formed the present day Italian Astronomical Society. It was through them that the path from astronomy to astrophysics was laid. Secchi made the first spectral classification of the stars. With his popularization and scientific writings, he contributed to the development of a Christian-inspired dimension of science in the midst of a strongly anti-Catholic moment in history, for which he personally paid the price.

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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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