An edition of Between Copernicus and Galileo (1994)
Between Copernicus and Galileo
Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology
By James M. Lattis
Publish Date
1994
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
eng
Pages
304
Description:
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.