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| Paper: |
Galileo and Bellarmine |
| Volume: |
441, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI |
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3 |
| Authors: |
Coyne, S.J., G. V. |
| Abstract: |
This paper aims to delineate two of the many tensions which bring to
light the contrasting views of Galileo Galilei and of Cardinal Robert
Bellarmine with respect to the Copernican-Ptolemaic controversies of
the 16th and 17th centuries: their respective
positions on Aristotle’s natural philosophy and on the interpretation
of Sacred Scripture. Galileo’s telescopic observations, reported in
his Sidereus Nuncius, were bringing about the collapse of
Aristotle’s natural philosophy and he taught that there was no science
in Scripture. |
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