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A Comprehensible Universe
The Interplay of Science and Theology
G e o r g e V. C o y n e
M i c h a e l H e l l e r
A CoMpreHensible UniVerse
The Interplay of Science and Theology
123
George V. Coyne
Vatican Observatory
2017 E. Lee St.
Tucson AZ 85719
USA
gcoyne@as.arizona.edu
Michael Heller
ul. Powstancow Warszawy
13/94
33-110 Tarnow
Poland
mheller@wsd.tarnow.pl
ISBN 978-3-540-77624-6 e-ISBN 978-3-540-77626-0
SPIN 12161362
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-77626-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008922391
© 2008 Springer-Verlag New York
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he use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication
does not imply, even in the absence of a speciic statement, that such names are exempt from
the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.
he photographs on pp. 116–119 were taken with the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope
at the Mt. Graham International Observatory, Arizona, USA and are printed here with the kind
permission of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.
Cover Image : Photo-composition of the William Herschel Telescope’s dome and the star Sirius.
By Nik Szymanek and Ian King, courtesy of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma.
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Every book has two lives: one before it is published and the other aterwards.
In its life ater publication, if the book is a success, it is studied by literary crit-
ics and inds its place in the history of literature. But its life before publication
usually remains unknown; yet it is this part of the book’s history that either
leads it to success or consigns it to oblivion. he present book had its begin-
nings in a course of lectures delivered by one of the authors (M. H.) to stu-
dents in the science departments at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. he
students played a vital role in shaping the structure of the course. heir ques-
tions and the lecturer’s discussions with them helped to determine what topics
would be treated in future sessions. Later on both authors met at the Vatican
Astronomical Observatory in the Pontiical Palace amidst the bucolic sur-
roundings of Castel Gandolfo where the papal summer residence is located.
During long evenings, when the autumn winds went howling through the
labyrinth of corridors and staircases in the palace, having completed their
usual day of scientiic research, they started working on the English version of
the manuscript. While working together at Castel Gandolfo it was oten easier
and quicker for the co-authors to communicate via e-mail than to search for
one another in the vastness of the palace. So when in due course they became
separated by about half of the Earth’s circumference – M.H. at his universities
in Poland and G.V.C. at the Vatican Observatory’s research institute in Arizo-
na – they continued their work through e-mail as efectively as before.
In the meantime the Polish publisher Proszynski i S-ka expressed the desire
to publish our work in Polish. he book was translated from English by Robert
M. Sadowski and appeared in 2007 under the title Pojmowalny Wszechświat
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