“COSMOS, PAST AND PRESENT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION OF GALILEO’S LETTER TO CHRISTINA OF LORRAINE”
Presenters: Fr. George Coyne, S.J., former Director of the Vatican Observatory, currently McDevitt Chair of Religious Philosophy at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY; Professor Mauro Pesce, Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Bologna and author of “L’ermeneutica biblica di Galileo e le due strade della teologia cristiana” (2005); Dr. Dennis McCarthy, former Director of the Directorate of Time at the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., and author of “Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics” (2009); Dr. Asim Gangopadhyaya, former chair of the Physics Department and currently Associate Dean for Planning and Resources at Loyola; Dr. John McCarthy, former chair of the Theology Department and author of articles on both Galileo and the concept of the sacred. Coffey Hall – McCormick Loungehttp://blogs.luc.edu/artsalive/celebrazioni-galileaiane-celebrating-galileo/