Article ID: CBB000072025

A matter of faith? Christoph Scheiner, Jesuit censorship, and the trial of Galileo (1996)

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Description A document discovered in the Roman archives of the Jesuits sheds new light on the involvement of the Jesuit mathematician Christoph Scheiner in the trial of Galileo.


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Authors & Contributors
Reeves, Eileen A.
Van Helden, Albert
Graney, Christopher M.
Oddbjørn Engvold
Malara, Ivan
Jack B. Zirker
Journals
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Variorum
University of Notre Dame Press
CLUEB
Concepts
Astronomy
Science and religion
Sunspots
Science
Physics
Linguistics; philology
People
Galilei, Galileo
Scheiner, Christoph
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista
Kircher, Athanasius
Brahe, Tycho
Newton, Isaac
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Pisa (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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