Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus - Softcover

Blackwell, Richard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268022100 ISBN 13: 9780268022105

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

"Richard Blackwell offers yet another important volume for our understanding of the context and thought around the trial of Galileo and more broadly the interaction of theology and science in the early modern era. Blackwell's scholarship is well known to Galileo scholars. . . . This latest volume makes Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus (1633) available in English for the first time, affording those lacking Latin better insights into the mind of the advisor to the Holy Office of the (Roman) Inquisition who gave the most detailed analysis of Galileo's Dialogue. Blackwell's five introductory chapters set Inchofer and other dramatis personae in Galileo's life in the context of the history of theology as well as of science. Blackwell especially considers the biblical hermeneutics that prompted figures like Inchofer to conclude that the Bible in fact taught the immobility of the Earth." -Journal for the History of Astronomy

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Richard J. Blackwell is professor emeritus of philosophy, Saint Louis University. He is the author of numerous books, including Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008), and is translator of A Defense of Galileo, the Mathematician from Florence (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).

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• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0268022100
• ISBN 13: 9780268022105
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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