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dc.title	11 • The Final Boundary. The Ecclesiastic Ban on Copernicanism
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dc.description.abstract	The study discusses the impact of the Ecclesiastic ban on Copernicanism over the Jesuit cosmological teaching. If, in the early seventeenth century, the Santo Antão's mathematics professors insisted that the Copernican system was mathematically sophisticated but physically incongruent and potentially heretical in religious terms, by the middle of the century, teachers such as John Rishton did not doubt to state that 'the system of Copernicus is not physically impossible'. Nevertheless, the ban on Copernicanism by the authorities of the Catholic Church remained an obstacle to further elaborating on heliocentric cosmologies as models that described the world. Confessional anxieties still overshadowed scientific discussions.
dc.relation.ispartof	Knowledge Hegemonies in the Early Modern World
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-03-22
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-886-969-661-9/011
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-886-969-662-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-886-969-661-9
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The study discusses the impact of the Ecclesiastic ban on Copernicanism over the Jesuit cosmological teaching. If, in the early seventeenth century, the Santo Antão's mathematics professors insisted that the Copernican system was mathematically sophisticated but physically incongruent and potentially heretical in religious terms, by the middle of the century, teachers such as John Rishton did not doubt to state that 'the system of Copernicus is not physically impossible'. Nevertheless, the ban on Copernicanism by the authorities of the Catholic Church remained an obstacle to further elaborating on heliocentric cosmologies as models that described the world. Confessional anxieties still overshadowed scientific discussions.

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