>>8904211 anons Jesuit post gets a nom (pb)

“Barthet noted that French Jesuits often used the occult, particularly alchemy, magic, and Kabbalah, to help explain certain phenomena, such as magnetism, motion, matter, and optics, which they studied in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/jesuit-historiography-online/jesuit-science-before-1773-a-historiographical-essay-COM_196375