Annibale fantoli biography of william

Considered the paradigm case of the troubled interaction between science and religion, the conflict between Galileo and the Church continues to generate new research and lively debate.

Annibale Fantoli is the distinguished author of Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church (Notre Dame, ), and this new book is a revised.

Annibale Fantoli is the distinguished author of Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church (Notre Dame, ), and this new book is a revised.

A former Jesuit with degrees in mathematics and physics, Fantoli began the book more than twenty-five years ago when he was preparing a course.

Fantoli is fuller on Galileo's work on Galileo before Pope Urilan Viii, astronomy, although even here he does not provide a specialist's contribu- tion to.

Annibale Fantoli presents a wide range of scientific, philosophical, and theological factors that played an important role in Galileo's trial, all set.

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Richard J. Blackwell here offers a fresh approach to the Galileo case using as his primary focus the biblical and ecclesiastical issues that were the battleground for the celebrated confrontation. Blackwell's research in the Vatican manuscript collection and the Jesuit archives in Rome enables him to re-create a vivid picture of the trends and counter-trends that influenced leading Catholic thinkers of the period: the conservative reaction to the Reformation, the role of authority in biblical exegesis and in guarding orthodoxy from the inroads of "unbridled spirits", and the position taken by Cardinal Bellarmine and the Jesuits in attempting to weigh the discoveries of the new science in the context of traditional philosophy and theology.

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