Maximilian Hell, S.J.

[Dave Monroe]

Maximilian Hell, S.J. died 200 years ago in 1792, after falling victim
to the defamation of Jesuits during the Suppression of the Society.
Accused of altering his data during the 1769 transit of Venus, he was
not exonerateed until a century later when the renowned American
astronomer Simon Newcomb found Hell's readings to be correct, his
scholarship above suspicion and his accusers guilty of slander. The
damage done his reputation, however, survived him because of
historians who failed to report his rehabilitation.

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/hell.htm

"Jesuits, in short, were everywhere — especially under the beds of
zealous Calvinists and skeptical philosophers. They were pervasively
feared and loathed as no single group of preists and thinkers had been
before--and as none would again until the Bolshevik commisars of the
1920s."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1994/mar/03/the-souls-entrepreneurs/

http://books.google.com/books?id=6lE-OdAQPJsC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/jesuit-science-and-republic-letters

http://www.scribd.com/doc/30759675/30146218-Feingold-Mordechai-Jesuit-Science-and-the-Republic-of-Letters
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