Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories
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I have gladly read the letter in Italian and the treatise which Your Reverence sent me, and I thank you for both. And I confess that both are filled with ingenuity and learning, and since you ask for my opinion, I will give it to you very briefly, as you have little time for reading and I for writing: First. I say that it seems to me that Your Reverence and Galileo did prudently to content yourself with speaking hypothetically, and not absolutely, as I have always believed that Copernicus spoke. For to say that, assuming the earth moves and the sun stands still, all the appearances are saved better than with eccentrics and epicycles, is to speak well; there is no danger in this, and it is sufficient for mathematicians.
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- The Renaissance: An Overview
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- Christian Humanism
- Rise of National Monarchies
- Dante and the Italian Communes
- Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
- Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
- The Copernican Revolution
- The Newtonian Cosmos
- Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”
- Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
- Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
- Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
- Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”
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- Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
- A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
- Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly
- Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
- Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
- Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”
- Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children”
- Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
- Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories
- Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy