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The Challenging History of Other Earths
Christopher M. Graney
This paper provides an overview of recent historical research regarding scientifically-informed challenges to the idea that the stars are other suns orbited by other inhabited eart…
Galileo and Buonamici on the Tides of the Sea: Was Something Omitted from the Dialogue?
Christopher M. Graney
In his 1616 discourse on the tides, Galileo claimed that diurnal tides occurred in Lisbon, Portugal, bolstering his theory of the tides. Lisbon does not feature such tides, but in…
The Vatican and the Fallibility of Science: Augustine, Copernicus, Darwin and Race
Christopher M. Graney
This paper provides an overview of work, published since the opening of the archives of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the end of the twentieth century,…
Stolzenberg's "The Holy Office in The Republic of Letters" Revisited: On an Astronomical Diagram and Whether the Papacy Tacitly Permitted the Circulation of an Explicitly Copernican Book in 1660
Christopher M. Graney
Did the papacy tacitly permit the circulation of an explicitly Copernican book in 1660? One scholar has recently argued that it did. A close analysis of a unique illustration from…
Whence Tycho's Case against Copernicus? On Genesis, Augustine, and the Stars
Christopher M. Graney
This paper argues that Tycho Brahe's "principal argument against Copernicus" (as the astronomer Christiaan Huygens called it) likely derived from a much older argument regarding th…
Galileo between Jesuits: The Fault is in the Stars
Christopher M. Graney
In the middle of the seventeenth century, André Tacquet, S.J. briefly discussed a scientific argument regarding the structure of a Copernican universe, and commented on Galileo Gal…