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a faith in the power of human reason from medieval scholastics 40 grant makes a similar argument over some four centuries medieval natural philosophers transmitted a legacy to their non aristotelian and largely anti aristotelian successors in the early modern period a legacy that was unacknowledged that legacy was a pervasive and deep seated spirit of inquiry that was a natural consequence of the widespread and intensive emphasis on reason that began in the middle ages with the exception of revealed truths reason was the ultimate arbiter for most intellectual arguments and controversies in medieval universities 41 by 1500 prior to the reformation catholic europe had approximately 64 universities 42 copernicus brahe galileo kepler and newton all studied at universities founded during the middle ages copernicus edit main article copernicus portrait of nikolas copernicus on the strasbourg astronomical clock made by tobias stimmer c 1571 74 nicolaus copernicus a 19 february 1473 24 may 1543 was a renaissance polymath and catholic canon who formulated a model of the universe that placed the sun rather than earth at its center as a young man he studied for over a decade at three different catholic universities the university of kraków 1491 1495 the university of bologna 1496 1500 and the university of padua 1501 1503 in 1533 when copernicus was sixty johann albrecht widmannstetter delivered a series of lectures in rome outlining copernicus theory pope clement vii and several catholic cardinals heard the lectures and were interested in the theory on 1 november 1536 nikolaus von schönberg archbishop of capua and since the previous year a cardinal wrote to copernicus from rome some years ago word reached me concerning your proficiency of which everybody constantly spoke at that time i began to have a very high regard for you for i had learned that you had not merely mastered the discoveries of the ancient astronomers uncommonly well but had also formulated a new cosmology in it you maintain that the earth moves that the sun occupies the lowest and thus the central place in the universe therefore with the utmost earnestness i entreat you most learned sir unless i inconvenience you to communicate this discovery of yours to scholars and at the earliest possible moment to send me your writings on the sphere of the universe together with the tables and whatever else you have that is relevant to this subject 47 despite urgings from many quarters copernicus delayed publication of his book de revolutionibus orbium coelestium scholars disagree on whether copernicus publication delay was limited to concern about possible astronomical and philosophical objections or whether he was also concerned about religious objections b the majority of sixteenth century astronomers who read de revolutionibus thought that eliminating the equant was copernicus big achievement 53 because it satisfied the ancient aesthetic principle that eternal celestial motions should be uniform and circular 54 or compounded of uniform and circular parts in the sixty years following his death in 1543 copernicus s proposal that the earth was a planet was primarily attacked by protestant leaders like martin luther and philip melanchthon who used literalist interpretations of scripture to denounce the idea as absurd and urged secular governments to repress it 55 in contrast de revolutionibus initially caused only mild controversy among catholics the catholic establishment which copernicus was himself a part of for nearly a half century as a canon did not shun de revolutionibus the church itself remained officially silent on the theory s merits and even utilized some copernican mathematics for the 1582 gregorian calendar reform 56 while a dominican named giovanni maria tolosani did denounce the theory as a contradiction of holy scripture in 1546 57 his critique remained an isolated incident rather than an official stance of the church before 1610 58 jesuits edit main articles jesuits in science and jesuit missions in china scientific exchange further information ferdinand verbiest instruments for beijing observatory founded in 1540 at the end of the renaissance and the beginning of the counter reformation to meet the threat of protestantism the society of jesus the jesuits acquired a durable reputation as teachers and scholars beginning in the late 16th century the jesuits led by father matteo ricci father johann adam schall von bell and father ferdinand verbiest also sent missionaries to china where they were welcomed for their expert knowledge of astronomy calendar making mathematics hydraulics and geography 59 60 gregorian calendar edit main article gregorian calendar detail of the tomb of pope gregory xiii sculptor camillo rusconi celebrating the introduction of the gregorian calendar by the 16th century the date of the vernal equinox on the julian calendar had receded from march 25 to march 11 61 the council of trent authorized the pope to deal with calendar reform in order to stop the slow process in which the church s holidays were drifting relative to the seasons using the prussian tables of erasmus reinhold and building on the work of aloysius lilius christopher clavius a jesuit astronomer and head of mathematicians at the collegio romano proposed a significant reform the resulting gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar used throughout the world today c 62 63 it was introduced by pope gregory xiii after whom the calendar was named by a decree signed on 24 february 1582 64 christianity and modern science edit further information relationship between science and religion influence of a biblical worldview on early modern science continuity thesis duhem and the assayer when natural philosophers referred to laws of nature they were not glibly choosing that metaphor laws were the result of legislation by an intelligent deity 65 john hedley brooke science and religion some historical perspectives 1991 scholars have noted a direct tie between particular aspects of traditional christianity and the emergence of modern science 66 67 for example historian peter harrison argues that christianity contributed to the scientific revolution because many of its key figures had deeply held religious convictions 68 and believed themselves to be champions of a science that was more compatible with christianity than the medieval ideas about the natural world that they replaced 69 in the origins of modern science herbert butterfield observed that the christians helped the cause of modern rationalism by their jealous determination to sweep out of the world all miracles and magic except their own 70 galileo and kepler said that even though no person is perfect the book of nature was written not by man but by god and god is perfect therefore nature must be perfect and if we find the smallest mistake in our theories we should make a great effort to correct it to improve our theories so that they fit the facts perfectly 71 joseph agassi the continuing revolution a history of physics from the greeks to einstein 1968 according to science historian john hedley brooke the medieval search for signs of god in nature had often been based on the assumption that the two books of scripture and nature had been written in essentially the same language 72 kepler and galileo however both believed that because the book of nature was created by god it must therefore be absolutely perfect 73 but that its hidden perfection 74 could only be understood with mathematics philosophy i e natural philosophy is written in this grand book i mean the universe which stands continually open to our gaze but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written it is written in the language of mathematics without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it 75 while st augustine had written more than a millennium earlier that everyone even the illiterate can read the book of the universe galileo asserted that numeracy not just literacy was required to read the book of nature so that even fewer people were able to truly read it than the literate able to read the book of scripture 76 galileo also argued that not only should certainties of science never be called in question much less condemned upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words 77 but also that those same scientific certainties should be used where appropriate to help interpret scripture 78 faith versus reason edit condemnations of the 13th century edit main article condemnations of 1210 1277 the church played a pivotal role in both establishing the university of paris around 1150 and then facilitating the acquisition and translation of lost greek texts including physical treatises of aristotle into latin but within just a few decades 1210 a provincial synod declared that n either the books of aristotle on natural philosophy or their commentaries are to be read at paris in public or secret and this we forbid under penalty of excommunication 79 in 1215 acting under the authority of pope innocent iii papal legate robert of courçon incorporated these restrictions into the university s governing documents 80 effectively curtailing the teaching of certain aristotelian texts and marking the opening phase of the condemnations two additional rounds of condemnations were undertaken in 1270 and 1277 approximately sixteen lists of censured theses were issued by the university of paris during the 13th and 14th centuries 81 most of these lists of propositions were put together into systematic collections of prohibited articles 81 some scholars have argued that the 13th century condemnations were beneficial for medieval natural philosophy because they loosened the hold of aristotelian dogma on natural philosophers in the following century by condemning any proposition of natural philosophy that subordinated divine omnipotence god s absolute power to aristotelian impossibilities the condemnations inadvertently freed scholars to explore what if scenarios that aristotle had declared impossible such as the existence of a vacuum the plurality of worlds or the rotation of the earth this encouraged a shift in natural philosophy from an aristotelian style search for logical necessity toward the possibility of contingency e g the idea that the actual order of nature is one of many god could have chosen 82 the condemnations expressions of religious authority may have helped to open a door for natural philosophers to move beyond pure logical deduction towards a later project of reading the book of nature as god in fact wrote it roman inquisition edit main articles roman inquisition and index librorum prohibitorum following the emergence of the protestant churches and nations of northern europe the catholic church struggled to defend its authority in europe the mathematician and philosopher jacob bronowski wrote that catholics and protestants were embattled in what we should now call a cold war the church was a great temporal power and in that bitter time it was fighting a political crusade in which all means were justified by the end 83 in 1542 pope paul iii established the congregation of the roman inquisition known later as the holy office 84 to stop the spread of heretical depravity throughout the christian world 85 86 the inquisition was empowered by the church to use aggressive tactics including house arrest 87 and even torture 88 to stop heresy and enforce religious conformity from 1571 the inquisition had jurisdiction over books and created the index of forbidden books 89 90 the inquisition s system of tribunals lasted until the mid 18th century when pre unification italian states began to suppress the local inquisitions effectively eliminating the power of the church to prosecute heretical crimes but the inquisition continued to exist into the 19th century 91 the index was active from 1560 to 1966 92 93 94 while active it banned thousands of books 95 conrad gessner edit main article conrad gessner censorship conrad gessner 1516 1565 his historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology conrad gessner s zoological work historiae animalium which appeared in four volumes and was published between 1551 and 1588 under pope paul iv it was added to the church s list of prohibited books as gessner was a protestant he still maintained friendship with catholics regardless of the religious animosities between catholics and protestants at that time gaining support for his work catholic booksellers in venice protested the ban on gessner s books but it was later on allowed for selling once it was revised and freed from doctrines contrary to the catholic faith 96 galileo galilei the ban of 1616 edit further information galileo affair inquisition and first judgment 1616 and galileo galilei controversy over heliocentrism in discussions of physical problems we ought to begin not from the authority of scriptural passages but from sense experiences and necessary demonstrations for the holy bible and the phenomena of nature proceed alike from the divine word the former as the dictate of the holy ghost and the latter as the observant executrix of god s commands it is necessary for the bible in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned but nature on the other hand is inexorable and immutable she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her or cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operation are understandable to men for that reason it appears that nothing physical which sense experience sets before our eyes or which necessary demonstrations prove to us ought to be called in question much less condemned upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words for the bible is not chained in every expression to conditions as strict as those which govern all physical effects nor is god any less excellently revealed in nature s actions than in the sacred statements of the bible perhaps this is what tertullian meant by these words we conclude that god is known first through nature and then again more particularly by doctrine by nature in his works and by doctrine in his revealed word galileo galilei letter to the grand duchess christina 1615 97 galileo galilei was a catholic 98 scientist during the scientific revolution initially a beneficiary of church patronage of astronomy galileo rose to prominence with the publication of starry messenger in 1610 which included astronomical observations made possible by the 1608 invention of the telescope he was feted in rome honoured by the jesuits of the roman college and received by pope paul v and church dignitaries 99 in 1613 his letters on 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