Copernicus Banned: The Entangled Matter of the Anti-Copernican Decree of 1616

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-5-2019

Publication Title

Journal for the History of Astronomy

Publisher

Sage Journals

Volume

50

Issue

3

First page number:

376

Last page number:

378

Abstract

The year 2016 marked the 400th anniversary of the Catholic Church’s prohibition of Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus (1543) and condemnation of the idea of a moving earth as false and contrary to Scripture. Some institutions and scholars marked the occurrence with conferences, exhibitions, and publications. The present volume is one such example.

Keywords

Copernicus; Catholic church; Prohibition

Disciplines

History of Christianity | History of Religion | Philosophy

File Format

pdf

Language

English

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