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AFTER CERTAINTY

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Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible

Blackwell, Richard J. Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.

Why this matters here

Blackwell traces how Galileo’s observations narrowed the room in which older scriptural-interpretive habits could ignore instrumental seeing. When Authority Is Misread reads that narrowing as a contest over permission: who may claim that new evidence has changed what counts as visible.