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The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe

Note 257 — Chapter II · Bruno and Galileo.

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In 1620 the Congregation issued the changes it required to have made in the De Revolutionibus. They are nine in all, and consist mainly in changing assertion of the earth's movement to hypothetical statement and in striking out a reference to the earth as a planet. Doc. in Favaro: 140-141. See illustration, p. 61.

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