Abstract
INTRODUCTION The contribution to seismology of the Society of Jesus as an institution through its colleges and universities, and its members as individual scientists, forms an important chapter in the history of this science. This is especially so in the early years of its development. Several papers have described in part the work of Jesuits in seismology: Sanchez Navarro-Neumann (1928, 1937), Heck (1944), who limits himself to American Jesuits, and the interesting but short summaries of Linehan (1970, 1984). No recent or comprehensive work, however, exists on the topic. Recently, moreover, many Jesuit seismographic stations have been closed and the number of Jesuits actually working in seismology has been greatly reduced. To a certain extent, apart from a very few academic departments and research institutes associated with Jesuit universities, it can be said that this is a chapter which is coming to a close. The interest of Jesuits has...
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