Chasubles and Lab Coats

by Peter J. Floriani

"Two Popes, three bishops, monks, secular priests... I have no idea whether any of them ever did wear lab coats, but I am quite sure they all wore chasubles at the appropriate time, and not in the laboratory."This book provides short biographies of some priests, bishops, and Popes who were also scientists. Do you know who is...The bishop who became a saint, and is the only such person to be named in the great CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics ?The eye-doctor who became Pope, wrote a book on logic that was used for centuries, and devised an extremely modern technique for validating syllogisms?The bishop whose name is both a vessel of the human body and also a law of crystallography?The priest who has a mineral named for him?The priest who studied a formula for primes which remains one of the great problems of number theory, and also discovered a law which enables the building of pianos?The priest whose work united Darwin's guesses with authentic biochemistry?The priest who discovered the first asteroid?The priest who invented the "Big Bang" theory?The priest who founded modern entomology?

134 pages, Paperback

Published November 15, 2017