Today’s featured entry from the Vatican Observatory Faith and Science pages:
“Bellarmine – The Louvain Lectures” (CLICK HERE for it)
The Louvain Lectures, a short book published by the Vatican Observatory in 1984, was written by Ugo Baldini and Fr. George V. Coyne, S. J. (then Director of the Vatican Observatory). The book focuses on astronomy-related lectures given by St. Robert Bellarmine in 1570, when Bellarmine was not yet 30 years of age. It also includes Bellarmine’s handwritten version of his 1616 declaration to Galileo (CLICK HERE to continue).
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