Heretics? Science and Religion Before and After Galileo (LV / Seminar)

HS/SE

BA-KulT WTG 4

MA-GKWT 2, 5/1,7/1

MA-TGWT WTG 2

MA FW 7, 8, 9, 10

Onlineseminar

Walk into a court room of the inquisition and decide for yourself if Galileo, Copernicus, and other scientists were heretics. Analyze their writings and learn their context by ‘retracing’ their footsteps across early modern Europe. In this course, you will also read the original works of Galileo, Newton and other scientists translated into English. Join us and see how the most famous scientists of the past pushed their ideas forward in the Scientific Revolution.

Malcom Oster (ed.), Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)

Galilei, Galileo, Sidereus Nuncius (Sidereal Messenger). 2nd edition. (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Dozent: Nuno Castel-Branco