Galileo's Mistake: A New Look At the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
Language: English
Published by Arcade Publishing, 2003
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- Title
- Galileo's Mistake: A New Look At the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
- Author
- Rowland, Wade
- Publisher
- Arcade Publishing
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1559706848
- ISBN 13
- 9781559706841
- Item weight
- 21 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
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In a revisionist look at the seventeenth-century battle between ecclesiastical authorities and Galileo Galilei, Rowland provocatively challenges the prevailing view of the episode. The central issue for the inquisitors investigating Galileo's orthodoxy, insists Rowland, was never the sun-centered astronomy of Copernicus. No, much broader philosophical issues were at stake. And on these issues, Rowland argues, the church stood closer to the truth than did Galileo. The astronomer erred--in Rowland's judgment--not in his advocacy of Copernican theory but rather in his endorsement of a thoroughgoing mathematical empiricism. And while everyone now agrees with Galileo in accepting Copernicus, the doctrinaire empiricism Galileo deployed to advance Copernicanism looks as shallow and misleading to today's quantum physicists as it once did to the Renaissance theologians who forced Galileo to recant. Rowland won't convince everyone that in retracting his Copernican beliefs, Galileo was affirming sincere faith in Catholic doctrine. But his lucid historical narrative--embedded in a three-voice dialogue of contemporary commentators--does open up long-hidden ironies and paradoxes surrounding a pivotal event in the evolution of Western culture. Bryce Christensen
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