Melchior Inchofer, Giordano Bruno, and the soul of the world.
Following Galileo's trial of 1633, the Jesuit theologian Melchior Inchofer, author of the most negative reports used by the Roman Inquisition against Galileo, repudiated the Copernicans for the 'heresy' of the soul of the world (anima mundi), in an unpublished manuscript. I show that Inchofer's argu...
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