Between Copernicus and Galileo : Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology
"Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate." "By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution."--Jacket
xix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226469270, 9780226469294, 0226469271, 0226469298
29953006
1. Clavius's Astronomical Work and Life
2. Jesuit Mathematics and Ptolemaic Astronomy
3. The Defense of Ptolemaic Cosmology
4. The Rival Cosmologies
5. Cosmological Debate and the Rebuttal of Copernicus
6. Strains on Ptolemaic Cosmology, Inside and Out
7. Galileo, Tycho, and the Fate of the Celestial Spheres