Story of Catholic clergyman Nicolaus Copernicus who solves the puzzle of the solar system & the Lutheran Mathematics professor who convinces Copernicus to publish.
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Story of Catholic clergyman Nicolaus Copernicus who solves the puzzle of the solar system & the Lutheran Mathematics professor who convinces Copernicus to publish.
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I have another logline for this. Don’t know if its better, it mentions the Reformation but it doesn’t make the conflict, church vs science because that’s not a conflict at the time. I won’t write a story that helps propagate a myth that he was a heretic in his lifetime when he was invited on to Papal committee’s to reform the calendar.
Anyway, logline:
In the days when questioning the church was heresy, a Catholic clergyman Nicolaus Copernicus challenges Earth’s place at the centre of the Universe but is afraid to publish until a Protestant Mathematics Professor convinces the ageing astronomer.
Alas, one must assume historical amnesia on the part of anyone who reads this logline, that he or she will have little or less knowledge of the central conflict.? To wit, that Copernicus’s? meticulously observed findings challenged the established? Catholic church dogma, that the earth was the center of the universe.
Hence, Copernicus was challenging, undermining the authority of the Church itself.? And at the worst possible time, when Protestant Reformation was also challenging and revolting against the authority of the Catholic Church in matters of faith and doctrine.
That’s the central conflict at stake in the story:?? the authority of the Church in matters of faith, practice, and science.? Suggest reworking the logline to focus on what was really at stake.