Re: Copernican Revolution

Mark Kalthoff (Mark.Kalthoff@ac.hillsdale.edu)
10 Jul 1995 08:34:07 U

Regarding the request from Gordon Simons for more discussion on this point, I
would recommend the following two sources (at least as helpful starting
points to further discussion).

Robert S. Westman, "The Copernicans and the Churches," Chap. 3 in
_God & Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and
Science_, eds. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers (California, 1986).
See especially the subsection of this essay entitled "The Copernican Theory
and Biblical Hermeneutics," pp. 89-93.

AND

John Hedley Brooke, _Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives_
(Cambridge, 1991). See especially chap 3, "The Parallel Between Scientific
and Religious Reform."