Science and Society The Case of Astronomy The 16th and 17th Century Search for Security What is Science Defining an Ill Defined Term Method and Motivation Astronomy and the Early Scientific Revolution Astronomy and Astrology Understanding Heaven and Earth The Ptolemaic System Copernicus and the Pursuit of the Divine What was threatening about Galileo Terms scientia ether Kepler Inquisition Introduction 16th and 17th Century Search for Security What is Science Defining an Ill Defined Term Method and Motivation 1 Astronomy and the Early Scientific Revolution Astronomy and Astrology Understanding Heaven and Earth The Elements Fire A Zodiac circle 2 Gratian s Decretum on the Interpretation of Dreams Do not observe any months or times or days or years or the course of the moon and the month and the sun since one who observes or attends to these things and to any divinations or fates or omens or consents to those who observe these things uselessly and without cause is also inclined more to his own damnation than to his salvation Part 2 case 26 question 7 chapter 16 my emphasis A certain number of clerics or laymen cultivate omens and under the name of a made up religion claim a knowledge of divination through what they call the lots of the blessed Fathers or predict future things by the inspection of certain scriptures Let any cleric or layman who will have been found either to consult or to teach such practices be considered as not belonging to the church Part 2 case 26 question 5 chapter 6 The Ptolemaic System Ptolemy c 90 168 CE 3 Copernicus and the Pursuit of the Divine Revolutions of the Celestial Heavenly Spheres 1543 4 Tycho Brahe Early Telescope What was threatening about Galileo Galileo Galilei 1564 1642 5 The Starry Messenger 1610 Maffeo Barberini Pope Urban VIII elected 1623 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1632 6
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