Pre Natal Period
An institution that has almost without exception supported and promoted sciences for two millennia.
What is the Catholic Church?
The Academy of Lynxes
House Arrest and recitation of penitential psalms.
What was Galileo's punishment in the main from his trials about the Copernican system?
Christoph Scheiner
Who was the SJ priest who discovered sunspots with a telescope and made systematic observations of them published in Rosa Ursina in 1640?
Gregor Mendel
The POV which was the fertile ground for sustained advance in scientific progress with its understanding of an intelligible world.
What is the Judeo-Christian world view?
Galileo Galilei
Who was the first presider of the Academy of Lynxes founded by Federico Cesi in 1603?
Simplicio
What was the name given to the defender of the Ptolemaic system in the satirical dialogue written by Galileo?
Marin Mersenne
This was the event whereby the Church declared that God created the world "ex nihilo".
What was the Lateran IV Council of 1215?
Reiterated that God created the world out of nothing, in time, as a freely undertaken act
What is the VCI Dei Filius position on creation?
Insufficient proof that it was true.
What was the main reason the cardinals condemned Galileo re the Copernican system he defended?
Giambattista Riccioli
Benedetto Castelli
Who was the professor of mathematics who was a student of Galileo and to whom Galileo sent a letter defending himself in the midst of his trials?
This churchman challenged the Aristotelian notion that God had to create the world as he did. The notion, he saw, was opposed to God's omnipotence and absolute freedom.
Who was Bishop Stephen Tempier of Paris?
That sciences should have a proper autonomy and that men should have a freedom to engage in scientific discovery and speculation without artificial constraints.
What is the declaration given in VCII addressing in a general way the abuse that arose in the Galileo Case?
Which solar system model placed the Earth at the center with all the other solar system bodies in orbit around it on epicycles?
Francesco Grimaldi
Who was the convert and priest/bishop became a Blessed by JPII and who was the father of crystallography and stratigraphy?
This was the contribution in scientific ideas that John Buridan, professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, originated in 1330 about the heavenly bodies.
What was the theory of impetus (that things set in motion continue in motion without further assistance)?
What is Dei Filius?
What was the proof for the heliocentric system proposed by Copernicus and championed by Galileo that finally came in 1728 and was based on parallax?
Light is a wave
What did Grimaldi's study on light diffraction show about light?
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Who was the Jesuate priest who came up with the "method of indivisibles" which was a forerunner to calculus in the 1640s?