Did you know that during the pre-revolutionary years, an unprecedented ideological conflict between Enlightenment and Christian scholars regarding the correctness of the Heliocentric System was recorded in Greece? These conflicts, indeed, include the possibilities for the existence of life on other planets in our space neighborhood. What are the arguments of each side? How do the conservative ecclesiastical circles of the time welcome the entry of Natural Sciences into the new teaching programs of Schools? For what reasons before the Revolution did the Patriarchate impose an Orthodox Inquisition in Constantinople? And how is the relationship between the Church of Greece and the science of Astronomy developing, up to the milestone year of the moon landing?
The journalist Minas Papageorgiou brings to light a story seemingly paradoxical, but at the same time extremely charming, from the turbulent years of the New Greek Enlightenment. A story that demonstrates how the preparation of the great Uprising resonates, beyond what we already know, and a desperate cry of Greek intellectuals for more Education, free from restrictions, dogmas and censorship. In this ideological confrontation, the enemy is not only the Ottomans...
Minas Papageorgiou's book is particularly timely and enlightening, energetically documenting the perceptions that prevailed in the heyday of Greek intellectuals in the 18th and 19th centuries, on a little-known ideological conflict between the Enlightenment and the Clergy.
Dionysis Simopoulos,
Honorary director of the Eugenide Planetarium
A penetrating and illuminating approach to a little-known field of the history of ideas in Greece, a useful contribution to the study of the relationship between science and religion. It is worth reading for the completeness and synthesis of his sources.
Dr. Alexandros Sakellariou,
Panteio University
& Hellenic Open University
A journey into the depths of all-human intergalactic pursuits with historical sobriety and constant upheavals. Minas Papageorgiou sheds light on the unknown Greek Enlightenment and traces its timeless struggles. It is read with eyes and minds open.
Christos Demetis,
Editorial Director of News247.gr
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