It happened on OCTOBER 16

1747

The mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) and the philosopher Denis Diderot (1713-1784) began drafting their Encyclopédie with the aim, the first of its kind, of gathering all of human knowledge together in one work.

1978

Karol Wojtyla was elected pope, taking the name John Paul II. He promoted a renewed dialogue between faith and culture, and he authored key documents on the relationship between theology and scientific thought."

INTERS.org

Readings on Freedom of Research

Introduction to readings, by Stefano Oliva

John Henry Newman, Christianity and Scientific Investigation. A Lecture Written for the School of Science (1855)

Michael Polanyi, The foundations of academic freedom (1947)

John Paul II, Address to Scientists and Students in the Cologne Cathedral (1980)

A. Einstein, On Freedom, in Out of my Later Years (1950)

Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti,The Autonomy of the Sciences and Freedom of Research (2002)

Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science

The Encyclopedia, published by the Centro di Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede operating at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, provides new, scholarly articles in the rapidly growing international field of Religion and Science (ISSN: 2037-2329). INTERS is a free online encyclopedia.