Between Copernicus and Galileo
Subtitle: Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaic cosmology
By: James M. Lattis.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Clavius, Christoph, 1538-1612.; Ptolemy, 2nd cent.; Cosmology, Medieval.; Astronomy, Medieval.
Description: Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer who played a central role in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian world views into the Church's accepted teachings. When Galileo first collided with the Church over his own work, he was in effect combatting a cosmological and intellectual agenda Clavius had worked to create, and a coterie of Church intellectuals Clavius had helped to educate.

By tracing Clavius's views from their medieval origins into the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-284) and index.