Rheticus' Accommodation Hermeneutics in Defense of the New Astronomy
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Copernicanism, Galileo, Hermeneutics, Hooykaas, RheticusAbstract
In this contribution, we explore a little-referenced effort of Rheticus in favor of the reception of the astronomy of his teacher Copernicus in the religious circle of his time. This appears in his "Treatise on Sacred Scripture and the Motion of the Earth", a document lost for centuries, and rediscovered by Hooykaas in 1972. Here, we offer an elucidation of the main ideas of Rheticus and suggest – from the comparative study of a concrete case – that he should be considered as a precursor of later similar moves, such as that of Galileo in well-known and better-studied letters.
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