Behind the scenes at Galileo's trial : including the first English translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus / Richard J. Blackwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackwell, Richard J., 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and science--History--17th century.

Religion and science.

Astronomy, Renaissance.

Inquisition--Italy--Rome.

Inquisition.

Catholic Church--Doctrines--History--17th century.

Catholic Church.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Trials, litigation, etc.

Galilei, Galileo.

Inchofer, Melchior, 1585?-1648. Tractatus syllepticus.

Inchofer, Melchior.

Italy--Rome.

Tractatus syllepticus (Inchofer, Melchior).

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Preface; Note to the Reader; The Legal Case at Galileo's Trial; Melchior Inchofer's Role in the Galileo Affair; The Scriptural Case against Copernicanism in 1633; Christopher Scheiner's Dilemma; Fallibilism and Religion; A Summary Treatise Concerning the Motion or Rest of the Earth and the Sun, in which it is briefly shown what is, and what is not, to be held as certain according to the teachings of the Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers; Jesuit Rules on Theology and Philosophy; Christopher Scheiner's Prodromus pro sole mobile (1633, pub. 1651); Notes; Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-235) and indexes.

Contains:

Inchofer, Melchior, 1585?-1648. Tractatus syllepticus. English.

ISBN:

9780268075699

0268075697

OCLC:

905462199