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by Christopher M. Graney


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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opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries.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 Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, were in fact able to build an increasingly strong scientific case against the heliocentric system at least through the middle of the seventeenth century, several decades after the advent of the telescope. The scientific case reached its apogee, Graney argues, in the 1651 New Almagest of the Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli, who used detailed telescopic observations of stars to construct a powerful scientific argument against Copernicus. Setting Aside All Authority includes the first English translation of Monsignor Francesco Ingoli's essay to Galileo (disputing the Copernican system on the eve of the Inquisition's condemnation of it in 1616) and excerpts from Riccioli's reports regarding his experiments with falling bodies.

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  • Title Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science Against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
  • Author Christopher M. Graney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
  • Date 2015-04-15
  • ISBN 9780268029883 / 0268029881
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Renaissance Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Astronomers - Italy, Copernicus, Nicolaus
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014047949
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Christopher M. Graney is professor of physics at Jefferson Community & Technical College.

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