Christopher Graney

Christopher Graney (Grad ’90) has published Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo, an account and analysis of seventeenth-century scientific arguments against the Copernican system, with the University of Notre Dame Press. Mr. Graney’s research calls on newly translated works by anti-Copernican writers of the time to challenge the idea that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition and instead proposes that science played an important, even predominant, role in that opposition. Mr. Graney is a professor of physics at Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville, Kentucky.