Compare and analyze the arguments of Kepler and Galileo in there respective works.

Write a 3-page essay analyzing, evaluating, and comparing the arguments concerning science, scripture, and truth that Keplermade in his Astronomia Nova (1609) (attached below) and those that Galileo made in his“Letter to Castelli” (1613)(attached below) and his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) (in The Essential Galileo that is attached below). IMPORTANT: BELOW I ATTACHED 2 DOCUMENTS THAT CONTAINS THE SOURCES YOU NEED TO USE. THE FIRST SOURCE IS KEPLERS ASTRONOMIA NOVA. THE SECOND DOCUMENT ATTACHED HAS GALILEO\’S LETTER TO CASTELLI BUT ALSO AT THE TOP OF THAT SAME DOCUMENT THERE IS A LINK TO THE ESSENTIAL GALILEO TEXT. YOU MUST USE ALL THREE OF THESE SOURCES IN YOUR RESPONSE.You may frame your essay however you like, so long as you address and compare Kepler’s arguments and Galileo’s arguments on these issues.In your response please think about and answer the following points:What did Galileo mean when he said in his Letter to Christina that “in disputes about natural phenomena one must begin not with the authority of scriptural passages, but with sense experiences and necessary demonstrations” (Essential Galileo, p. 116)?What role, if any, did Galileo think our scientific knowledge ought to play in guiding the interpretation of scriptural passages that appear to bear on the motions of the Earth and Sun?What objections to Galileo’s approach did Cardinal Robert Bellarmine raise in his April 1615 letter to Galileo’s ally Paolo Antonio Foscarini (Essential Galileo, pp. 146–48)?How did Galileo respond (Essential Galileo, pp. 163–67)?How did Kepler respond to those who argued against Copernicus’s theory by citing passages in the Bible that seem to say that the Sun moves and the Earth stands still?What were the implications of his assertion that “while in theology it is authority that carries the most weight, in philosophy it is reason” (Astronomia Nova, p. 25)?Be sure to give page numbers for any quotations you use from The Essential Galileo or from the excerpt from Kepler’s Astronomia Nova that is attached, and to give full citations for anyother sources you may use.

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