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58 are to be corrected; those which declare the doctrine conformable to Scripture are to be utterly prohibited.

In a 'Monitum ad Nicolai Copernici lectorem, ejusque emendatio, permissio, et correctio,' dated 1620 without the month or day, permission is given to reprint the work of Copernicus with certain alterations; and, by implication, to read existing copies after correction in writing. In the preamble the author is called nobilis astrologus; not a compliment to his birth, which was humble, but to his fame. The suspension was because:

And the corrections relate:

That is, the earth's motion may be an hypothesis for elucidation of the heavenly motions, but must not be asserted as a fact.

All the allusion to Lactantius, who laughed at the notion of the earth being round, which was afterwards found true, is to be struck out.

We must not say the question is not yet settled, but only that