BROTHER TOMMASO CAMPANELLA

OF CALABRIA, OF THE ORDER

OF PREACHERS, The Order of Preachers is the formal name for the Dominicans, a Catholic religious order.

DEFENSE FOR

GALILEO, MATHE-

MATICIAN OF FLOR-

ENCE.

WHEREIN IT IS INQUIRED, WHETHER THE METHOD

OF PHILOSOPHIZING, WHICH GALILEO

celebrates, favors the Holy Scriptures, or

opposes them. original: "VBI DISQVIRITVR, VTRVM RATIO PHILOSOPHANDI, QVAM GALILEVS celebrat, faueat sacris scripturis, an aduersetur." This subtitle highlights the core conflict of the era: reconciling new scientific observations with religious doctrine.

FRANKFURT,

At the expense of GOTTFRIED TAMPACH,

From the press of ERASMUS KEMPFFER.

A Defense of Galileo