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Shell
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Posted: Nov 07 2009 at 5:35am \| IP Logged

Can anyone recommend any books for children aged around 6 and above about Catholic scientists. I am particularly looking for good 'living' fiction.
I know there's a book out there about Louis Pasteur which I think will be easy enough to find-but does anyone have other ideas?
I would love some stories about the priest astonomers if such a thing exists.
All ideas welcome.

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100 Years of Catholic Scientists may be a good start for you. It's not a living book but a collection of brief biographies of Catholic scientists. Maybe it will help you in your search for books about them if you had some names? I remember when Jane was writing this book, she is the go-to expert of the Galileo controversy.

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A really nice picture book I would recommend is Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas. It is a pretty substantial one. The concepts that it is covering are deep yet it is also a lovely story.

Mary Daly (Hedge School) has the compilation of 1000 Years of Catholic Scientists mentioned - it has brief biographical summaries of 200 scientists.

Shell wrote:

I would love some stories about the priest astonomers if such a thing exists.

I really don't think there is much that exists for that level - young children, except maybe for Copernicus and I'd be wary how it was presented unless I knew it was a Catholic friendly author. Mary G. recommended this book from the Vatican Observatory: The Heavens Proclaim - about the history of the Vatican Observatory in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. Not a living history book for children, more of a coffee table type book as she described it, but would have some of what you are looking for re. priest astronomers.

Of course Galileo was a Catholic scientist and there are lots of children's books written about him, but none that I have found which aren't on the anti-Catholic, church suppression of science side.

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Posted: Nov 09 2009 at 6:05am \| IP Logged

Thank you. I've got the Mendel book. It really is lovely. I hope the authors go on to produce more like it.
The 1000 yrs book looks just the thing-thanks for that.

I have seen "The Heavens Proclaim" but it is a bit old for my youngsters at this point. I have it on a wish list for later though.
Thank you

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