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Christopher M. Graney - Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo - 9780268029883 - V9780268029883
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Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo

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Description for Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; PG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.

Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries.

Graney calls on newly translated works by anti-Copernican writers of the time to demonstrate that science, not religion, played an important, and arguably predominant, role in the opposition to the Copernican system. Anti-Copernicans, building on the work of the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268029883
SKU
V9780268029883
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About Christopher M. Graney
Christopher M. Graney is professor of physics at Jefferson Community & Technical College.

Reviews for Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
“Christopher M. Graney’s Setting Aside All Authority makes a fine contribution to the history of science and especially the history of astronomy. The case Graney presents for the rationality of denying Copernicanism, as late as the mid seventeenth century, is cogent, and he presents a good deal of novel historical material that urges a reevaluation of a major figure—Riccioli. The ... Read more

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