Jesuit Church Innsbruck

About this audio guide

This guide to the Jesuit Church in Innsbruck, Austria, follows Christoph Scheiner, the Jesuit priest and astronomer who spent years training telescopes on the sun and sparring with Galileo over who first saw its spots. In sixteen seventeen he was called to Innsbruck to advise the archduke on mathematics and instruments, and somehow ended up responsible for this very building. It is a story about a scientist more at home with lenses than with timber. Stand in the square and look up at the facade before you go in.