Between Copernicus and Galileo
Lattis, James M.
Between Copernicus and Galileo Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology / [electronic resource] : James M. Lattis. - University of Chicago Press, 1994. - 1 online resource (xix, 293 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
"Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate." "By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.
9780226469263 (electronic bk.) 0226469263 (electronic bk.)
Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Cosmology, Medieval.
Astronomy, Medieval.
SCIENCE--Astronomy.
Electronic books.
QB981 / .L32 1994eb
523.1
Between Copernicus and Galileo Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology / [electronic resource] : James M. Lattis. - University of Chicago Press, 1994. - 1 online resource (xix, 293 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.
"Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate." "By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket.
9780226469263 (electronic bk.) 0226469263 (electronic bk.)
Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.
Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
Cosmology, Medieval.
Astronomy, Medieval.
SCIENCE--Astronomy.
Electronic books.
QB981 / .L32 1994eb
523.1