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		<title>Galileo Galilei -- Letter (1615) to Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany [tr. Drake (1957)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let us grant then that theology is conversant with the loftiest divine contemplation, and occupies the regal throne among sciences by dignity but acquiring the highest authority in this way. If she does not descend to the lower and humbler speculations of the subordinate sciences and has no regard for them because they are not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let us grant then that theology is conversant with the loftiest divine contemplation, and occupies the regal throne among sciences by dignity but acquiring the highest authority in this way. If she does not descend to the lower and humbler speculations of the subordinate sciences and has no regard for them because they are not concerned with blessedness, then her professors should not arrogate to them-selves the authority to decide on controversies in professions which they have neither studied nor practiced. Why, this would be as if an absolute despot, being neither a physician nor an architect but knowing himself free to command, should undertake to administer medicines and erect buildings according to his whim &#8212; at grave peril of his poor patients&#8217; lives, and the speedy collapse of his edifices.</p>
<p><em>[Ora, se la teologia, occupandosi nell&#8217;altissime contemplazioni divine e risedendo per dignità nel trono regio, per lo che ella è fatta di somma autorità, non discende alle più basse ed umili speculazioni delle inferiori scienze, anzi, come di sopra si è dichiarato, quelle non cura, come non concernenti alla beatitudine, non dovrebbono i ministri e i professori di quella arrogarsi autorità di decretare nelle professioni non essercitate né studiate da loro; perché questo sarebbe come se un principe assoluto, conoscendo di poter liberamente comandare e farsi ubbidire, volesse, non essendo egli né medico né architetto, che si medicasse e fabbricasse a modo suo, con grave pericolo della vita de&#8217; miseri infermi, e manifesta rovina degli edifizi.]</em></p>
<br><b>Galileo Galilei</b> (1564–1642) Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, polymath<br>Letter (1615) to Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany [tr. Drake (1957)] 
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Arguing that theologians ought not make judgments regarding astronomy and its theories, such as heliocentrism, since even if their science is the highest and most important (dealing with God and salvation), that does not mean they know anything of "lower" sciences.<br><br>

(<a href="https://disf.org/galileo-lettera-a-madama-cristina-di-lorena#:~:text=Ora%2C%20se%20la,rovina%20degli%20edifizi.">Source (Italian)</a>)						</span>
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