During the Renaissance, astronomy was founded by a famous astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. ... Renaissance was also a period with an unprecedented explosion of mathematical ideas. ... Why so many great astronomical advances were achieved during the Renaissance but not before or after the Renaissance? ... Another important factor that contributed to the development of astronomy during the Renaissance was the outstanding translators, not only the translators during the Renaissance but also those before the Renaissance. ... Although Copernicus was Polish, he also spoke Latin, German, Italian and...

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The trial of Galileo Galilei (1633) brought a destructive impact on the world of science and humanism when it was forced to encounter scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The devastating result brought about the end of the Italian Renaissance as well as Galileo's libe...

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By itself this "Nova" may have signaled a "Nova" approach to how the heavens were viewed and Galileo may have been one of the stars of this era in triggering the explosion of investigation and philosophical teaching known as the Renaissance. ... It must be kept in mind that the Roman Catholic Church in Italy throughout this period was on the defense in response to the Protestant threat and in many ways attempted to squelch and extinguish through different means any threat to its authority. The most dangerous sources were the developing ideas and theories throughout Europe and Italy itself that...

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Bertolt Brecht's Galileo Galilei, a great Renaissance scientist, was one of these men, whose ideas were constantly controlled and scrutinized by Church officials if they questioned the bible's traditional ways of thought. ...

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