DANVILLE, Va. — Family, friends and school officials gathered at the Carrington Pavilion on Friday morning to celebrate Galileo High School’s Class of 2021 with an in-person ceremony.
This is the cover of Galileo Revisited: The Galileo Affair in Context by Dom Paschal Scottie. The book is reviewed by Brian Welter. (CNS)
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Author Father Paschal Scotti, a Benedictine priest, provides readers with a solid foundation to the cultural and intellectual background of famous mathematician, inventor and astronomer Galileo Galilei.
In addition to its humanism, which changed the whole culture with a new attitude toward research in general, Rome hosted a lively, even turbulent, intellectual scene. It featured stoicism, Aristotelianism, Platonism and glimpses of new science, particularly Copernicus idea that the earth revolved around the sun.
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