Description:
Setting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific, not religious, arguments against the Copernican heliocentric system.
Brief description:
Christopher M. Graney is professor of physics and astromony at Jefferson Community Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).
Review Quotes:
"Christopher Graney's recent monograph is best described by one word: scientific. It is a book about knowledge, process, and context. If only more history was like this." --Paragon