Setting Aside All AuthoritySetting Aside All Authority is an important account and analysis of seventeenth century scientific arguments against the Copernican system. Christopher M. Graney challenges the long standing ideas that opponents of the heliocentric ideas of Copernicus and Galileo were primarily motivated by religion or devotion to an outdated intellectual tradition, and that they were in continual retreat in the face of telescopic discoveries. Graney calls on newly