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    The "Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina" is an essay written in 1615 by Galileo Galilei. The intention of this letter was to accommodate Copernicanism...
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    response. In his Letter to Grand Duchess Christina Galileo expounded on the relationship between science and revelation. He argued that the Scripture does...
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    Galileo Galilei (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    as the "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" which was not published in printed form until 1636. This letter was a revised version of the Letter to Castelli...
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    Grand Duchess Christina". Pope Pius XII (1939–1958) repeated his predecessor's teaching: The first and greatest care of Leo XIII was to set forth the...
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    Galileo affair (category Events relating to freedom of expression)
    made in the citation given on the page itself. Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of 1615 Bellarmine's letter to Foscarini of 1615 Inquisition...
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    Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine; 1 November 1864 – 18 July 1918) was a German Hessian and...
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    Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (Maria Christina Johanna Josepha Antonia; 13 May 1742 – 24 June 1798), was the fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria...
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    Caesar Baronius (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    latter (without precise attribution) in his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615). At the time of the Venetian Interdict, Baronio published a pamphlet...
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    teachings. In his 1615 "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina", Galileo defended heliocentrism, and claimed it was not contrary to Holy Scripture. He took...
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    Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (Russian: Великая Княгиня Мария Павловна; 18 April [O.S. 6 April] 1890 – 13 December 1958), known as Maria Pavlovna...
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    the available time. The rest of the time is at disposal of the Spanish and international astronomical communities. The TNG is open to new proposals two...
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    Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ксения Александровна Романова; 6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter...
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    Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (/ˈmɛɡən/; born Rachel Meghan Markle; August 4, 1981) is an American member of the British royal family and a former actress...
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  • Edmondo Lupieri (category Italian expatriates in the United States)
    2018. ISBN 9789004386754 Where Have All the Heavens Gone? Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (co-edited with John P. McCarthy), Cascade...
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  • quadrant, and sometimes a clamp at the end of one leg which allowed the device to be used as a gunner's quadrant. The sector was invented, essentially simultaneously...
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    and Copernicus' theory. His Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina dealt with theological matters and the need to analyse the scripture differently, while...
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    not doing that. Rather, as in his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina four years previously, he was insisting that the burden of proof lay with those who...
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     209–228. ISBN 978-90-474-4115-1. Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Recantation (22 June 1633) as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio...
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  • advisable to review and expand the arguments he had set out. This was the basis of his subsequent Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, which expanded the eight...
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  • Germer Lester Hogan Let There Be Light (Howard Smith book) Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina Lettere al Nuovo Cimento Leucippus Lev Artsimovich Lev Gor'kov...
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    Sicilies by birth and Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1833 to 1859 as the consort of Leopold II. She is also known as Marie Antoinette of the Two Sicilies or...
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    Maria Josepha of Austria (category Grand duchesses of Lithuania)
    the Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Electress of Saxony by marriage to Augustus III. From 1711 to 1717, she was heir presumptive to the...
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    is recorded in the cadastre of 1427 to have been owned by Tommaso di Cristofano Masi and his brothers, who later passed it on to the Calderini family...
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    causes related to women and children. Astrid and Leopold had three children. Their daughter, Joséphine-Charlotte, later became the Grand Duchess Consort of...
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    Christina (Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa and the Queen of Sweden in her own...
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    The Tribune of Galileo (Italian: Tribuna di Galileo) is a Neoclassic architectural addition, built to commemorate the famous Florentine scientist, Galileo...
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    legends tied to Scandinavian royal houses: Lord Henry II of Mecklenburg's paternal great-grandmother, a Scandinavian noblewoman named Christina, the wife of...
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    Marie Casimire Sobieska (category Grand duchesses of Lithuania)
    the diminutive form "Marysieńka", was a French noblewoman who became the queen consort of Poland and grand duchess consort of Lithuania from 1674 to 1696...
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    Maria Josepha of Bavaria (category Duchesses of Bavaria)
    Roman Empress, Queen of the Romans, Archduchess of Austria, and Grand Duchess of Tuscany, among other titles, by her marriage to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor...
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    Isabella of Austria (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    about the marriage in 1515 with the only 14-year-old Elisabeth. Cartwright, Julia (1913). Christina of Denmark: Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590...
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