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Science 17 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5448, pp. 2279 - 2280
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5448.2279
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Cathedrals as Astronomical Instruments
A review by Albert Van Helden
The Sun in the Church Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
J. L. Heilbron
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 376 pp. $35. ISBN 0-674-85433-0.
Heilbron blends discussions of astronomy, religious architecture, and Catholic history to demonstrate that the Church's efforts to establish an unquestionable date for Easter led to evidence on the geometry of the solar system that favored the ideas for which Galileo had been condemned.
The author is in the Department of History, Rice University, MS-42, 6100 S. Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA. E-mail: helden{at}rice.edu
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
