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Between Copernicus and Galileo (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Between Copernicus and Galileo (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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"Between Copernicus and Galileo" is the story of Christoph Clavius,
the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the
standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and
whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of
the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution.
Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential
throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth
centuries through his astronomy books--the standard texts used in
many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes,
Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy.
James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival
materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating
traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy
into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the
new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the
telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view.
By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth
century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to
Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological
impact of the Scientific Revolution.
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