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Modern History Sourcebook:
Reading Guide:
Galileo: Letter to the Grand Duchess of
Tuscany
[Note: Reading Guides are meant as review aids for a particular
text. They do indicate some of the questions a text raises.]
Answer the questions below.
Find your information from the sourcebook itself, or from your
textbook.
You may use other sources, but indicate what they are is this
is the basis of submitted class work.
Galilei Galileo: Letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- How does Galileo differentiate between the study of physical
science and the study of theology?
- What differences does he see between them?
- Does Galileo seem to believe in God?
- What view does he have of the Bible? Why might this view upset
Church authorities?
- What were Galileo's views on the authority of the Church?
- What problems for the Roman Catholic Church do you think statements
such as these caused? From your reading elsewhere, how does the
Church now characterize its claim to infallibility? [You could
look this up in the New Catholic Encyclopedia]?
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