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• catalog abstract ""Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system." "A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church-sponsored observers. It engagingly describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Despite the Church's prohibition against advocating sun-centered astronomy, Italian clerics managed to teach and advance it. Heilbron describes, with dry wit, the diplomatic discretion on all sides that allowed them to do so."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11261976.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""Through much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system." "A tale of politically canny astronomers and cardinals with a taste for mathematics, The Sun in the Church explains the unlikely accomplishments of the Church-sponsored observers. It engagingly describes Galileo's political overreaching, his subsequent trial for heresy, and his slow and steady rehabilitation in the eyes of the Catholic Church. Despite the Church's prohibition against advocating sun-centered astronomy, Italian clerics managed to teach and advance it. Heilbron describes, with dry wit, the diplomatic discretion on all sides that allowed them to do so."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-328) and index.".
• catalog description "Renaissance and Astronomy -- Counter-Reformation and Cosmology -- Wider Uses of Meridiane -- The Science of Easter -- The Luminaries and the Calendar -- A Scandal in the Church -- A Sosigenes and His Caesars -- Florence -- Bologna -- Rome -- Bononia Docet -- A New Oracle of Apollo -- Astronomia Reformata -- Normal Science -- Perfecting the Parameters -- Repairs and Improvements -- The Pope's Gnomon -- Calendrical and Other Politics -- The Meridian in Michelangelo's Church -- Meridiane and Meridians -- The Accommodation of Copernicus -- Heliometers and Heliocentrism -- Protective Measures -- Book Banning -- The Last Cathedral Observatories -- The Things Themselves -- Their Results -- Their Competitors -- Time Telling -- Some Means of Conversion -- The Equation of Time -- More Light Play.".
• catalog extent "ix, 366 p., 8 p. of plates:".
• catalog hasFormat "Sun in the Church.".
• catalog identifier "0674854330 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Sun in the Church.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "Sun in the Church.".
• catalog spatial "Italy".
• catalog spatial "Italy.".
• catalog subject "520/.94 21".
• catalog subject "Astronomical observatories Italy.".
• catalog subject "Astronomy, Renaissance.".
• catalog subject "Catholic Church Italy History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "QB29 .H33 1999".
• catalog subject "Religion and science Italy History 17th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Renaissance and Astronomy -- Counter-Reformation and Cosmology -- Wider Uses of Meridiane -- The Science of Easter -- The Luminaries and the Calendar -- A Scandal in the Church -- A Sosigenes and His Caesars -- Florence -- Bologna -- Rome -- Bononia Docet -- A New Oracle of Apollo -- Astronomia Reformata -- Normal Science -- Perfecting the Parameters -- Repairs and Improvements -- The Pope's Gnomon -- Calendrical and Other Politics -- The Meridian in Michelangelo's Church -- Meridiane and Meridians -- The Accommodation of Copernicus -- Heliometers and Heliocentrism -- Protective Measures -- Book Banning -- The Last Cathedral Observatories -- The Things Themselves -- Their Results -- Their Competitors -- Time Telling -- Some Means of Conversion -- The Equation of Time -- More Light Play.".
• catalog title "The sun in the church : cathedrals as solar observatories / J.L. Heilbron.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".