The Geocentric Universe: According to the Visions of St. Hildegard of Bingen

What did a medieval abbess see about the shape of the cosmos that the great names of modern science did not? Nearly a thousand years after her death, St. Hildegard of Bingen was canonized a saint and named a Doctor of the Church (on May 10 and October 7, 2012, respectively), and a feature film had already drawn fresh attention to her life. This eleventh-century German mystic and Benedictine abbess, once called "the most gifted woman of the epoch," was given an insight into cosmology that this book argues surpasses the theories of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein.

Her medieval German has been newly translated and analyzed here, so that her visions can be read and weighed on their own terms. Be prepared for an astounding journey.