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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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Kategoria Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Pełny tytuł: Sun in the Church
• Podtytuł: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
• Autor: J.L. Heilbron
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 384
• EAN: 9780674005365
• ISBN: 0674005368
• ID: 04634247
• Wydawca: Harvard University Press
• Waga: 730 g
• Wymiary: 245 × 172 × 25 mm
• Data wydania: 02. April 2001

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