Writings for and against Copernicus
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Allegory of Divine Wisdom (1629–1633) Andrea Sacchi [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
During the first half of the seventeenth century, the world systems and questions about the nature of the world and the Sun were not only a topic of theology but also of art and literature. Thus the new astronomical insights were often represented as new themes of allegories