Ambassador of Hungary to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta tweets:
When the next guy tells you “the Church” believed “in the middle ages” “that the world is flat” show him this pic – how Thomas Aquinas (13th century) in his Summa casually mentions *2 different ways* to prove the world is round (“terra est rotunda”).
Seeing is believing.
Categories: Catholic, Thomas Aquinas
How excellent that the institutions of faith were the receptacles of physical knowledge in the so-called ignorant times.
“Ad secundum dicendum, quòd diversa ratio cognoscibilis diversitatem scientiarum inducit. Eandem enim conclusionem demostrat astrologus & naturalis, puta quòd terra est rotunda: sed astrologus per medium mathematicum, id est, a materia abstractum: naturalis auté per medium circa materiam consideratum.”
Gloria in excelsis Deo! Vivaldi’s a good one.
For those of us who are a tad challenged in Latin, would you please translate the entire passage? Thanks, in advance.
It’s in here: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FP_Q1_A1.html
The section is “Reply to Objection 2” if you can’t find it. You’re welcome.
Thanks much!
or tell that guy “Have you ever seen the moon flat?”