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