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The Sun in the Church - Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R811
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The Sun in the Church - Cathedrals as Solar Observatories (Paperback, New Ed)

J. L. Heilbron

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Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Built to fix an unquestionable date for Easter, they also housed instruments that threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system, and so, within sight of the altar, subverted Church doctrine about the order of the universe. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they accomplished. It describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. And it offers an enlightening perspective on astronomy, Church history, and religious architecture, as well as an analysis of measurements testing the limits of attainable accuracy, undertaken with rudimentary means and extraordinary zeal. Above all, the book illuminates the niches protected and financed by the Catholic Church in which science and mathematics thrived. Superbly written, The Sun in the Church provides a magnificent corrective to long-standing oversimplified accounts of the hostility between science and religion.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2001
First published: April 2001
Authors: J. L. Heilbron
Dimensions: 250 x 180 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 366
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00536-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Religious buildings
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Observatories, equipment & methods
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
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LSN: 0-674-00536-8
Barcode: 9780674005365

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