Nicolaus Copernicus: Dear Pope Of The Catholic Church

“So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.” this quote is from Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous astronomer who discovered something remarkable. Copernicus was a part of the German heritage, but at the time, the city of Torun where he was born was a part of Poland so some believed he spoke some Polish as well. The remarkable discovery in which he found, was the heliocentric universe, meaning the Sun was the center of the universe not the Earth. Without him creating this theory and then later on proving it, even though the Catholic Church did

The Religious aspects that life seemed to revolve around during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries made a large impression on the way scientists not only distributed their information, but the way it was written down and explained. During the time period the Church held an extraordinary amount of power, easily outweighing any mere scientist who claimed the seemingly impossible notion that the sun, not the earth, was in the center of the universe. Should someone inadvertently challenge this immense authority, death was not simply a threat, it was an absolute promise. This absolute giant of a power that was the church, loomed over many scientists such as Copernicus acknowledged this power by writing things such as “can readily hold slanders from biting.” Copernicus was directly going against the church with his theory of heliocentrism though he writes his “labors contribute even to the well

While the Roman Catholic Church believed that the earth was the center of the universe, Nicolaus Copernicus’s discovered that the Earth actually was one of the planets hat revolved around the sun. “For, in the first place, they are so uncertain about the motion of the sun and moon that they cannot establish and observe a constant length even for the tropical year. (Document 1)” The church belief did not make sense because it was wrong. They were going off wrong information that they could not establish a constant year, which confuses people. Nicolaus said that the earth moved around the sun, which made more sense and

Correspondence between French Intellectuals, such as Pierre Gassendi and Marin Mersenne, gave insight into the meditations of those who did not falter to defend Galileo. Sarasohn states, “Gassendi and Mersenne were sincere Catholics and their response to Galileo’s troubles shows the complex nature of the effect of the condemnation on individual Catholic natural philosophers and on the progress of the Scientific Revolution itself in France” (36). Sarasohn reinforces that the French figures of this age, because they are in association with the Gallican Church, grasped scientific ideas contrary to the rest of Catholic Europe. Therefore, Sarasohn is undeniable when she claims, “this work [letters of correspondence] is indispensable to the study of intellectual life in this period” (35: Footnote 2). Her evidence of correspondence verifies that French intellectuals supported Galileo and scientific activity did not stand

No. Copernicus’s work was publish shed “at the the instance of the Cardinal of Capua and the Bishop of Culm” (31). Galileo also shares that Copernicus’s book was accepted by the

He disapproved of the use of taking biblical passages without critical thinking and deeper semantic reflection. Galileo settles the tussle between religious faith and individual reason by saying that to “abandon reason and the evidence of our senses in favor of some biblical passage” would be “contrary to the sense of the Bible and the intention of the holy Fathers.” I believe that Galileo’s purpose of writing this letter was not only to gain Duchess’ support and prove himself innocent to the allegations charged against him but also to convey his message to the public, mainly the Church. The fact that he had to affirm Copernicus’ relation with religion is telling of the importance of hierarchy and power needed for the support of the

In 1624, Galileo was guaranteed by Pope Urban VIII that he could expound on Copernican hypothesis the length of he regarded it as a scientific recommendation. With the printing of Galileo's book, Dialog Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo was called to Rome in 1633 to confront the Inquisition once more. Galileo was discovered to be guilty of profanity for his Dialogue, and was sent to his home that was close to Florence where he was to be under house capture for the rest of his life. In 1638, the Inquisition allowed Galileo to move to his home in Florence. The goal was that he could be nearer to his specialists.

Tyeisha Moton Dr. Daniel Unowsky History 1120/005 15 September 2014 Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Galileo was an astronomer, mathematician, and an Italian physicist. In the early 1600s, he was the greatest European scientist (The Human Record, 41). Galileo Galilei was also a devout Catholic.

You may not know me, but I am Nicolaus Copernicus’s lawyer. And I heard that you threw my client, Nicolaus Copernicus, in jail because of his theory about the Earth has it’s own axis and the sun in the center of the Solar System. As this is an irrelevant idea to throw my client because of a theory which was true. Throwing my client in jail will do nothing since it will just make everything worse. He wrote a book about how he developed his own celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, and you banned so no one would see. This is inaccurate. You might think that I am against the bible. I am not being against the bible but I will be against

In the history of the Catholic Church, no episode is so contested by so many viewpoints as the condemnation of Galileo. The Galileo case, for many, proves the Church abhors science, refuses to abandon outdated teachings, and is clearly not infallible. For staunch Catholics the episode is often a source of embarrassment and frustration. Either way it is undeniable that Galileo’s life sparked a definite change in scientific thought all across Europe and symbolised the struggle between science and the Catholic Church.

Galileo’s ideas and belief in the Copernican system resulted in multiple warnings from the Church about pursuing his ideas too far. One of these warnings was when Bellarmine wrote the Letter to Foscarini in April 12, 1615, showing clearly that he was displeased with Copernicanism. Soon after, Galileo was asked to stop promoting Copernicanism, and Galileo gave a response in the form of the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina di Medici (1615). In this letter, Galileo defended Copernicus’s ideas using an argument of great skill. This shows Galileo’s naturally exceptional intellectual power, characteristic of a genius.

The Government of Galileo's time, the Church, placed him under house arrest in 1633. Galileo was tried after publishing a book explaining his belief in Copernicus's model of our solar system, which went against what the church taught. Many believed that we (Earth) were the center with the known planets revolving round, while Copernicus and Galileo believed the Solar System was Sun centered (Heliocentric Model). Galileo and Copernicus scientifically proved they were right by watching the Constellations (Zodiacs), Venus's phases, and Mar’s orbit that appears to go backward. In the following pages I’ll be explaining why Galileo should have been released from house arrest.

Galileo’s work contradicted a ruling made by the church in the Index of 1616, and he sought not only to avoid his work being discredited, but to restore the work of Copernicus to what he saw as its rightful place. While the “qualifiers” amassed by Rome decided Nicolaus Copernicus’s work On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres was not dangerous so long as it was only regarded as a theory instead of a definite explanation due to its heretical nature , Galileo sought to prove otherwise. He argued that as the Pope himself sought out Copernicus, and revered his work so highly as to be the man chosen to adjust the calendar to which all of the Christian world adhered and no one had bothered to object to his theories until proof had been found, that they ought to reconsider. He further bolsters his argument with

As time progresses, there will always be a continuous effect of people disagreeing with others viewpoints as well as having a never-ending resolution to it. In The Case Against Copernicus, it clearly shows you this by stating that “They were eventually proved wrong, but that did not make them bad scientists. In fact, rigorously disproving the strong arguments of others was and is part of the challenge, as well as part of the fun, of doing science”, which just ends to show you that we do not all have the answers to everything that exists in the universe, yet what we do have is the urgency to oppose others to be wrong when we do not know all of the facts (Danielson and Graney 5). As a T-T, given from Shifting the Origin, foretells Galileo’s legacy

Churches had too many authorities in too many areas and the traditional viewpoints had resistance towards the Copernican System. Without a doubt, Galileo was charged for heresy for going against the words of the holy Bible and his published title “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” was to be named prohibited by the Church. The complexity of Ptolemy’s theory was so intense that when astronomers made more research about the universe, lesser and lesser made sense. Galileo’s mathematical explanation for this Helio-Centric System convinced astronomers that Copernicus was right after all, putting an end to Ptolemy’s empirical