Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science Against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo

by Christopher M. Graney

Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long-standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268029881
• ISBN13: 9780268029883
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"