Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery
The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one''s conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one''s beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the teles...
The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one''s conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one''s beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges. Advances in astronomy, such as the theories of Copernicus, the development of the teles...