De houding van Nederlandse Rooms-Katholieken tegenover de natuurwetenschappen in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw

The attitude of Dutch Roman Catholics towards the natural sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century In the second half of the nineteenth century there were no Roman Catholic professors in the natural sciences at the Dutch universities. Original contributions to the natural sciences from Roman Catholic scholars are lacking. In fact the natural sciences had a bad reputation among Roman Catholics, because they were considered as materialistic and positivistic, both condemned by Pope Pius IX. In Roman Catholic periodicals, in which apologetics was the main programme, it was stated that... Mehr ...