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The Galileo Affair online Session

[by courtesy of Grupo de investigacion Ciencia, Razon y Fe, University of Navarre, Spain]

 

 

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Letter to Benedetto Castelli (1613)

 

Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615)

[from Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, edited by Stillman Drake, Anchor-Doubleday, New York 1957]

 

Robert card. Bellarmino (1542-1621), Letter to Paolo A. Foscarini (1615)

[from M. Finocchiaro, The Galileo Affair. A Documentary History, Berkeley 1989]

 

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Prayers to God Creator

[from Harmonies of the World, 1619]

 

A Classical Example of Anglican Apologetics: R. Boyle's Christian Virtuoso

[from The Christian Virtuoso (1690)]

 

Robert Boyle, The Astronomical Discoveries and the Copernican Hypothesis manifest the Wisdom of God

[from The Christian Virtuoso (1690)]

 

Søren Kierkegaard’s Criticism to Materialistic Naturalism of the 19th Century (1847)

[from Diary (1847)]

 

John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Galileo, Revelation, and the Educated Man (1861)

[from the Manuscript An Essay on the Inspiration of the Holy Scripture]

 

John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Letter to J. Walker of Scarborough on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, May 22, 1868

[from The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, edited by C.S. Dessain and T. Gornall, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1973]

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