Nienke Roelants, Ph.D. (1982), KU Leven, has published on early modern history of science, university history and religious history. She currently holds positions as managing director of an academic publishing house and as publisher.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: On Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers1 The True Church at Wittenberg University1 Luther’s Notion of the True Church2 The True Church in World History3 Origins of Astronomy4 Supporting a Bible-Based Theology5 Keeping it Pious6 Scholar-Protectors2 Luther’s Anthropology1 The Apple of no Return2 Knowledge after the Fall3 Humbling the Philosopher3 Learned Devotion1 The Architectonic Mind2 The Antitype of the Epicurean Philosopher4 G.J.Rheticus and Fruitful Ignorance1 The Renaissance Restoration of Astronomy2 Rheticus’s Advocacy of Heliocentrism in Historiography3 Epistola de terrae motu: A Theological Anthropological Turn4 Narratio prima5 The Historiographical Reintegration of a once lonesome Physical Realist5 Tycho Brahe’s Turn to the Book of Nature1 The Wittenberg Connection2 Into the Wrestling Arena3 The Theological Anthropological Turn4 The Geoheliocentric Model of the Universe6 Caspar Peucer’s Turn to Mosaic Philosophy1 Planetary Models2 Peucer as a Mosaic PhilosopherConclusionBibliographyIndex