NATS 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Literal And Figurative Language
11 Feb 2017
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Galileo, armed with evidence from the galileo, armed with evidence from the telescope, took on the scholastic telescope, took on the scholastic philosophers, who defended aristotle. Philosophers, who defended aristotle and ptolemy dogmatically. and ptolemy dogmatically. Galileo, a devout catholic, began to galileo, a devout catholic, began to undermine aristotle undermine aristotle at the privileged at the privileged interpreter of the bible. interpreter of the bible. The bible uses the bible uses figurative language figurative language. Joshua commanding the sun to stand still joshua commanding the sun to stand still merely merely a convenient expression. a convenient expression. Anyway, literally, joshua should have commanded anyway, literally, joshua should have commanded the celestial sphere to stop turning. the celestial sphere to stop turning. Galileo instructed not to galileo instructed not to (cid:862) (cid:862)hold or defend hold or defend(cid:863) (cid:863) the the. This was the counter this was the counter-reformation.
