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The Sun in the Church

Cathedrals as Solar Observatories [Paperback]

by J.L. Heilbron

    • Author

      J.L. Heilbron

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Harvard University Press

    • Published

      April 2001

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      The Sun in the Church

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      Product Description

      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

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Harvard University Press

      • Published

        April 2001

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        730g

      • Page Count

        366

      • Dimensions

        172 x 245 x 25 mm

      • ISBN

        9780674005365

      • ISBN-10

        0674005368

      • Eden Code

        1192719

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      • Author/Creator: J.L. Heilbron

      • ISBN: 9780674005365

      • Publisher: Harvard University Press

      • Release Date: April 2001

      • Weight: 730g

      • Dimensions: 172 x 245 x 25 mm

      • Eden Code: 1192719

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