Trinity College Dublin

The Catholic Chaplaincy presents a lecture by Dr. Nuno Castel-Branco of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies titled “Was Galileo A Heretic? The Galileo Affair with the Church and Why It Still Matters Today.”

Tuesday, September 27

7:00 PM

Swift Theatre room 2041A of the Arts Block

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science and research fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in the History of Science at Johns Hopkins University in May 2021. He also received an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Lisbon (ISTécnico). His current research focuses on the emergence of the new sciences in seventeenth-century Europe through the career of Nicolaus Steno, an anatomist who converted to Catholicism and was beatified by John Paul II. He also studies the development of Jesuit science in early modern Iberia. He has won several awards in Europe and the United States, such as a Fulbright Fellowship and a Huntington Exchange Fellowship at Oxford University. His writings have been accepted for publication in several journals including Early Science and Medicine, Renaissance Quarterly, and Scientific American.