@inbook{df36a675b9d84191933786c07aa4a92b,
title = " Blackwood{\textquoteright}s Edinburgh Magazine in the Scientific Culture of Early Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh",
abstract = "The April 1818 number of Blackwood{\textquoteright}s Edinburgh Magazine opens with a proto-Brechtian sketch entitled {\textquoteleft}Galileo at the Inquisition{\textquoteright}, in which Galileo is imagined in dialogue with one of the monks, his gaoler. It is difficult to tell where exactly the sympathy of the author lies throughout the interaction - or perhaps it is more accurate to say that the moral authority appears to shift between the two characters. Galileo is immediately recognizable as the hero of a scientific modernity, resisting the politico-theological constraints of an oppressive {\textquoteleft}universal{\textquoteright} church. Yet the question of whose {\textquoteleft}truth{\textquoteright} proves the more vulnerable remains unclear, as when Galileo yearns heavenward and the Monk recommends he {\textquoteleft}study the scriptures, with care and diligence, and you will have no need for optical contrivances{\textquoteright}: Galileo I think there is no sacrilege in attempting to discover more of the nature of the universe than what is revealed in [the Scriptures]. Monk So you believe yourself capable of succeeding in the attempt? Galileo Perhaps I do. Monk Do not allow yourself to be led away by the idle suggestions of selfconceit.",
keywords = "Natural History Museum, Natural Theology, Scientific Controversy, Scientific Culture, Scientific Intelligence",
author = "William Christie",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013, William Christie.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1057/9781137303851_10",
language = "English",
series = "Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "125--136",
booktitle = "Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print",
address = "United Kingdom",
}