![]() Although some Jesuits were able to continue their work after the suppression, whether privately or in state universities and observatories, the rarity of these stories of survival ultimately confirm that this was indeed the end of an age. The suppression also brought an end to the Jesuits’ efforts to introduce European scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, to China and India, as well as their pioneering work of presenting the flora, fauna, and geography of the newly discovered countries of America to a European audience for the very first time. ![]() 1 Tragically, the order’s suppression also coincided with the Jesuits’ involvement in the science of astronomy, with the suppression being implemented at a time when the order was just beginning to open astronomical observatories in its colleges and universities and in a period when it had begun introducing Newtonian physics and astronomy into the Jesuit curriculum. ![]() All of a sudden, the work of numerous Jesuit scientists in European, Asian, and American institutions was cut short. ![]() Pope Clement XIV’s (1705–74, r.1769–74) suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, which followed the Jesuits’ suppression in Portugal (1758), France (1764), and Spain and its American colonies (1767), put an end to the scientific work in which the order had been involved for more than two hundred years. ![]()
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