How to Be a Catholic Copernican in the Spanish Netherlands

The notion of Catholic Copernicanism in the aftermath of the Galileo affair remains something of an apparent oxymoron.¹ It has been suggested that after the Galileo affair of 1633, cosmological truth went underground in the Catholic world for many decades, thus creating an asymmetry in the role play...

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Published inMaking Truth in Early Modern Catholicism p. 85
Main Author Steven Vanden Broecke
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam University Press 05.04.2021
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Summary:The notion of Catholic Copernicanism in the aftermath of the Galileo affair remains something of an apparent oxymoron.¹ It has been suggested that after the Galileo affair of 1633, cosmological truth went underground in the Catholic world for many decades, thus creating an asymmetry in the role played by Catholic and Protestant Europe in the so-called Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This story remains an important reference for the history of science in the Spanish Netherlands. Living in a region that the Tridentine Church approached as a northern bulwark against the Reformation, we are told that natural philosophers suffered
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv1jf2c7v.6