Annotated Source #8

McColley, Grant. "The Universe of De Revolutionibus." Isis 30.3 (1939): p. 452-472. Print.

• McColley's article addresses the impact of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus in context. It particularly outlines how this related to the Medieval/Renaissance relationship to God. McColley writes, "To expand the mundane universe in the sixteenth century was to encroach upon the infinite realm which the age assigned to Deity; to remove its boundary was also to remove the barrier which set apart this universe and the celestial world of God; to remove the boundary and to expand indefinitely the eighth sphere was to bring together in one cosmos both the mundane and heavenly worlds" (455). It essentially directly addresses my topic.