The Jesuits are members of a religious order of the Catholic Church, the Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola. From 1548, when Jesuits established their first college, their educational work expanded rapidly and in the 18th century, in Europe alone, there were 645 colleges and universities and others in Asia and America. As an innovation in these colleges, special attention was given to teaching of mathematics, astronomy, and the natural sciences. This tradition has been continued in modern times in the many Jesuit colleges and universities and this tradition thus spread throughout the world. Jesuits’ interest in geomagnetism derived from teaching in these colleges and universities. In many of these colleges and universities observatories were established, where astronomical and geophysical observations were made (Udías, 2003). Missionary work in Asia, Africa, and America, where scientific observations were also made and some observatories established, was another...
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Udías, A. (2007). Jesuits, Role In Geomagnetism. In: Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4423-6_161
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