Padre Redento Baranzano born Giovanni Antonio Baranzano (4 February 1590 – 23 December 1622) was an Italian

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priest, astronomer and writer who wrote a pamphlet ''Uranoscopia'' (1617) which supported a Copernican sun-centric planetary system. He was forced by the church to retract his publication.

Life and work

Baranzano was born in

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to Pietro and Clara. He studied at Crevalcuore, Vercelli, Novara and Milan. His education at Monz was in religion, philosophy, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldaic. He became a Barnabite on 11 March 1609 and took the name Redento. In 1615, he was posted by Ambrogio Mazenta to teach at Collège Chappuisien in

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. His primary activity was preaching against the Calvinists but he also began to examine scientific ideas. He corresponded with

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, who told Baranzano, before anybody else, about his ''

Novum Organum The ''Novum Organum'', fully ''Novum Organum, sive Indicia Vera de Interpretatione Naturae'' ("New organon, or true directions concerning the interpretation of nature") or ''Instaurationis Magnae, Pars II'' ("Part II of The Great Instauratio ...

''. He was also known to

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...

. Baranzano published a note on physics ''Novae opiniones physicae'' (1619) but he is best known because of his tract on astronomy begun in 1617 which accepted a heliocentric view and opposed Aristotle's ideas. This book ''Uranoscopia seu De coelo'' was published in 1619 by Jean Pillehotte in Lyon. He was called to Milan by the Archbishop and asked to make corrections to his writings. He wrote a tract to retract his ideas in ''Nova de motu terrae Copernican iuxta Summi Pontificis mentem disputatio'' (1618). He continued to be critical of the servile repetition of Aristotle's ideas. After 1620, he went to teach at Montargis alongside Father Tobia Corona where he died two years later.

References

External links

Uranoscopia Seu De Coelo (1817)

Novae Opiniones physicae (part 1)(part 2)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baranzano, Antonio Barnabites 17th-century Italian astronomers 1590 births 1622 deaths