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According to reading, what does the Catholic Church charge Galileo with?

According to reading, what does the Catholic Church charge Galileo with?

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According to reading, what does the Catholic Church charge Galileo with? 

to abandon altogether the said false doctrine and, written and published by you. You confessed in the event of your refusal, that an injunction that you began to wrice the said bookabout ten should be imposed upon you by the Commissary or twelve years ago, after the command had been of the Holy Office to give up the said doctrine imposed upon you as above; that you requested and not to teach it to others, not to defend it, nor even discuss it, and failing your acquiescence in those who granted you this license that this injunction, that you should be imprisoned. And, in order that a doctrine so pernicious doctrine in question in any way whatever. might be wholly rooted out and not insinuate itself further to the grave prejudice of Catholic that you, the said Galileo, by reason of the mat- truth, a decree was issued by the Holy Congre- gation of the Index prohibiting the books which above, have rendered yourself in the judgment treat of this doctrine and declaring the doctrine of this Holy Office vehemently suspected of itself to be false and wholly contrary co the sacred and divine scripture. And whereas a book appeared here recently, cred and divine scriptures-that che Sun is the printed last year at Florence, the title of which, center of the world and does not move from cast shows that you were the author, this ticle be- ing: "Dialogue of Galileo Galilei on the Great World Systems", and whereas the Holy Con- gregation was afterward informed that through declared and defined to be contrary to the Holy the publication of the said book the false opin scripture, and that consequently you have in- ion of the motion of the Earth and the stability curred all the censures and penalties imposeddand of the Sun was daily gaining ground, the said promulgated in the sacred canons and other con- book was taken into careful consideration, and in it there was discovered a patent violation of delinquents. From which we are content that you the aforesaid injunction that had been imposed upon you, for in this book you have defended the said opinion previously condemned and to face declared to be so, although in the said and every other error and heresy contrary co the inour license to print it without, however, intimating to you had been commanded not to hold, defend, or teach the We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare ters adduced in trial, and by you confessed as heresy, namely, of having believed and held the doctrine-which is false and contrary to the sa- to west and that the Earth moves and is not the be center of the world; and that an opinion may held and defended as probable after it has been stitutions, general and particular, against such be absolved, provided that, first, with a sincere beart and unfeigned farth, you abjure, curse, and detest before as the aforesaid errors and heresies book you strive by various devices to produce Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church in the the impression that you leave it undecided, and form to be prescribed by us for you. in express terms as probable: which, however, Is a most grievous error, as an opinion can in no wise be probable which has been declared and altogether unpunished and that you may be more defined to be contrary to divine scripture. Therefore by our order you were cited before this Holy Office, where, being examined upon your oath, you acknowledged the book to be And, in order that this your grave and perni- CIOUS crror and transgression may not remain cautious in the future and an example to others that they may abstain from similar delinquencies, we ordain that che book of the "Dialogue of Gali- leo Galilei" be prohibited by publicedict.
Transcribed Image Text:to abandon altogether the said false doctrine and, written and published by you. You confessed in the event of your refusal, that an injunction that you began to wrice the said bookabout ten should be imposed upon you by the Commissary or twelve years ago, after the command had been of the Holy Office to give up the said doctrine imposed upon you as above; that you requested and not to teach it to others, not to defend it, nor even discuss it, and failing your acquiescence in those who granted you this license that this injunction, that you should be imprisoned. And, in order that a doctrine so pernicious doctrine in question in any way whatever. might be wholly rooted out and not insinuate itself further to the grave prejudice of Catholic that you, the said Galileo, by reason of the mat- truth, a decree was issued by the Holy Congre- gation of the Index prohibiting the books which above, have rendered yourself in the judgment treat of this doctrine and declaring the doctrine of this Holy Office vehemently suspected of itself to be false and wholly contrary co the sacred and divine scripture. And whereas a book appeared here recently, cred and divine scriptures-that che Sun is the printed last year at Florence, the title of which, center of the world and does not move from cast shows that you were the author, this ticle be- ing: "Dialogue of Galileo Galilei on the Great World Systems", and whereas the Holy Con- gregation was afterward informed that through declared and defined to be contrary to the Holy the publication of the said book the false opin scripture, and that consequently you have in- ion of the motion of the Earth and the stability curred all the censures and penalties imposeddand of the Sun was daily gaining ground, the said promulgated in the sacred canons and other con- book was taken into careful consideration, and in it there was discovered a patent violation of delinquents. From which we are content that you the aforesaid injunction that had been imposed upon you, for in this book you have defended the said opinion previously condemned and to face declared to be so, although in the said and every other error and heresy contrary co the inour license to print it without, however, intimating to you had been commanded not to hold, defend, or teach the We say, pronounce, sentence, and declare ters adduced in trial, and by you confessed as heresy, namely, of having believed and held the doctrine-which is false and contrary to the sa- to west and that the Earth moves and is not the be center of the world; and that an opinion may held and defended as probable after it has been stitutions, general and particular, against such be absolved, provided that, first, with a sincere beart and unfeigned farth, you abjure, curse, and detest before as the aforesaid errors and heresies book you strive by various devices to produce Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church in the the impression that you leave it undecided, and form to be prescribed by us for you. in express terms as probable: which, however, Is a most grievous error, as an opinion can in no wise be probable which has been declared and altogether unpunished and that you may be more defined to be contrary to divine scripture. Therefore by our order you were cited before this Holy Office, where, being examined upon your oath, you acknowledged the book to be And, in order that this your grave and perni- CIOUS crror and transgression may not remain cautious in the future and an example to others that they may abstain from similar delinquencies, we ordain that che book of the "Dialogue of Gali- leo Galilei" be prohibited by publicedict.
GALILEO CONDEMNED BY THE INQUISITION The following selection is drawn from the records of the Inquisition, which found Galileo guilty of teaching Copernicanism. Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo position of Copernicus, which are contrary to the Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by tion to proceed against che disorder and mischief some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal [daily) motion; for having disci- of His Holiness and of the Most Eminent ples to whomn you taught the same doctrine, for Lords Cardinals of this supreme and universal holding correspondence with certain mathemati- Inquisition, the two propositions of the stability cians of Germany concerning the same; for having of the Sun and the motion of the Earth were by printed certain letters, entitled "On the Sunspors, wherein you developed the same doctrine as true; and for replying to the objections from the Holy scriptures, against it, by glossing the said scriptures accord- ing to your own meaning: and whereas there Holy scripture. was thereupon produced the copy of a document in the form of a letter, purporting to be written by you to one formerly your disciple, and in this divers propositions are set forth, following the true sense and authority of Holy scripture This Holy Tribunal being cherefore of inten- thence resulcing, which went on increasıng to the prejudice of the Holy Faith, by command the theological Qualifiers qualified as follows: The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is which from time to rime were urged absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the The proposition that the Earth is not the center of the world and immovable but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is equally absurd and false philosophically and theologi- cally considered at least erroneous in faith. Bur whereas it was desired at that time to deal "Galileo Before the Inquisition," in Giorgiode Santillana, The Crine of Galites, pp. 306-308, 310. Copytight 1955 by the Univers.ty of Chicago Press. Reprinted by permission. leniently with you, it was decreed at the Holy Congregation held before His Holiness on the cwenty-fifth of February, 1616, that his Eminence che Lord Cardinal Bellarmine should order you
Transcribed Image Text:GALILEO CONDEMNED BY THE INQUISITION The following selection is drawn from the records of the Inquisition, which found Galileo guilty of teaching Copernicanism. Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo position of Copernicus, which are contrary to the Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by tion to proceed against che disorder and mischief some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal [daily) motion; for having disci- of His Holiness and of the Most Eminent ples to whomn you taught the same doctrine, for Lords Cardinals of this supreme and universal holding correspondence with certain mathemati- Inquisition, the two propositions of the stability cians of Germany concerning the same; for having of the Sun and the motion of the Earth were by printed certain letters, entitled "On the Sunspors, wherein you developed the same doctrine as true; and for replying to the objections from the Holy scriptures, against it, by glossing the said scriptures accord- ing to your own meaning: and whereas there Holy scripture. was thereupon produced the copy of a document in the form of a letter, purporting to be written by you to one formerly your disciple, and in this divers propositions are set forth, following the true sense and authority of Holy scripture This Holy Tribunal being cherefore of inten- thence resulcing, which went on increasıng to the prejudice of the Holy Faith, by command the theological Qualifiers qualified as follows: The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is which from time to rime were urged absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the The proposition that the Earth is not the center of the world and immovable but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is equally absurd and false philosophically and theologi- cally considered at least erroneous in faith. Bur whereas it was desired at that time to deal "Galileo Before the Inquisition," in Giorgiode Santillana, The Crine of Galites, pp. 306-308, 310. Copytight 1955 by the Univers.ty of Chicago Press. Reprinted by permission. leniently with you, it was decreed at the Holy Congregation held before His Holiness on the cwenty-fifth of February, 1616, that his Eminence che Lord Cardinal Bellarmine should order you
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