It happened on JULY 27

1844
John Dalton died in Manchester (England). An English chemist and physicist, he studied the causes of color blindness, from which he and his brother suffered. (For this reason, color blindness is sometimes referred to as Daltonism.) His most important contribution, however, was regarding atomic chemistry and atomic theory, particularly the proposal that each element has its own corresponding atom. His work New System of Chemical Philosophy, published in 1808, was fundamental to the foundation of atomic theory in chemistry. In it, he refers to “natural philosophy” (chemical philosophy) as the science of interpreting the real. Dalton was a Quaker.

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Beauty and Wonder in Science

Scientific Beauty and Wonder Everywhere, by Geoffrey Wollard (2021)
The scientific experience of ultimates: Wonder, by E. Cantore (1977)
The meaning of beauty in exact natural science, by W.K. Heisenberg (1970)
Beauty and the quest for beauty in science, by S. Chandrasekhar (1979)

From the INTERS Articles: W. Derske, Beauty

Suggested readings:
Engineering, beauty and a longing for the infinite, by M.A. Mooney, Scientific American (2019)
How beauty is making scientists rethinking evolution, by F. Jabr, The New York Times Magazine (2019)
Truth and beauty in physics and biology, by Ben D. MacArthur, Nature Physics (2021)

    

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.

Anthology and Documents

To emphasize and spread relevant documents within the scientific community, this section provides key materials concerning the dialogue among science, philosophy and theology.

   

Special Issues

We offer here a selection of comments and documents on special issues in Religion and Science, collected for anniversaries and/or for the relevance of the topics.