1616
Nicolaus Copernicus, in a portrait kept in Toruń, the city of his birth.Image: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domainscience · Europe
The Church suspends Copernicus’s book
On 5 March 1616 the Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Index issued a decree declaring the idea that the Earth moves round the Sun false and contrary to Scripture. Copernicus’s great book of 1543, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, was suspended ‘until corrected’. The decree came as Galileo was arguing publicly for the Copernican view, and it set the stage for his trial in 1633. Corrections to the book were issued in 1620, but it stayed on the Index of forbidden books until 1835.
Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Galileo Galilei ↗
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