The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories Carl Gustav Jung THE SECOND ROUND OF THE

THE SECOND ROUND OF THE SUN-RHYTHM

Chapter 36 * The Zodiac 761

including Samadhi and Meditation

and tables of phonetic and figurative (or determinative) signs

From the Precursors of Nihilism to the Lost Youth and the Protest Movement

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories Carl Gustav Jung THE SECOND ROUND OF THEThrough much of the Scientific Revolution, between 1650 and 1750, Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. Constructed initially to solve the pressing problem of providing an unquestionable date for Easter, the instruments that made the churches' observatories also threw light on the disputed geometry of the solar system. Within sight of the altar, they subverted Church doctrine about mankind's place in the universe.