The sciences of the earth in the epistolary archives of the Barnabite scientists

Abstract

<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"><strong><br /></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"><strong>This short paper intends to highlight the uniqueness of scientific commitment – not rarely of a high level – of some</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"><strong>members of religious orders who, among other duties of their sacerdotal ministry, dedicated themselves particularly</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"><strong>to in the study of sciences of the earth, realizing as such a fertile union between «pity and science», typical</strong></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Times;"><strong>of the common spiritual and cultural formation of members of the Regular Clerics of Saint Paul, called Barnabites.</strong></p> <br />

Keywords

• Ke Barnabites
• letters
• seismology
• meteorology
• 19th century