Church and science (Vatican).New York--Galileo's feud feud, formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta) is characteristic of those societies in which central government either has not arisen or has decayed. with the Catholic Church, over the scientist's assertion that the planets revolve around Verb 1. revolve around - center upon; "Her entire attention centered on her children"; "Our day revolved around our work" center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about the sun, led to his house arrest in 1632 for astronomical heresy heresy, in religion, especially in Christianity, beliefs or views held by a member of a church that contradict its orthodoxy, or core doctrines. It is distinguished from apostasy, which is a complete abandonment of faith that makes the apostate a deserter, or former . That incident aside (in which, in 1992, Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła acknowledged that the Church had erred), the Church has worked diligently in the area of science, especially in astronomy, from the time of Galileo up to the present. John L. Heilbron John L. Heilbron (J. L. Heilbron) is an American historian of science best known for his work in the history of physics and the history of astronomy. He is Professor of History and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus (Vice-Chancellor 1990-1994) at the University of California, , a historian of science, has revealed the extent of the Church's involvement in astronomy in his book The Sun in the Church (Harvard, 1999). He chronicles the Church's support of astronomy, and lays to rest the popular notion that the Catholic Church has hindered the progress of science. In actual fact, the Church "gave more financial and social support to the study of astronomy for over six centuries...than any other (probably all other) institutions", including building and staffing observatories, designing astronomical tools, and peffecting observational methods and techniques. |
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