Author
J.L. Heilbron
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
October 1999
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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 alter, subverted church doctrine about the order of the universe. A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, this text 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.
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Author
J.L. Heilbron
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Published
October 1999
Weight
990g
Page Count
374
Dimensions
170 x 247 x 36 mm
ISBN
9780674854338
ISBN-10
0674854330
Eden Code
1192770
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Author/Creator: J.L. Heilbron
ISBN: 9780674854338
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: October 1999
Weight: 990g
Dimensions: 170 x 247 x 36 mm
Eden Code: 1192770
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