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 fidem præsens Decretum manu, et sigillo Illustris. simi, et Reverendissimi D. Cardinalis Sanctæ Cæciliæ Episcopi Albanen. signatum et munitum fuit, die 5 Martii, 1616.

It will be observed here, that the Copernican doctrine is condemned, in the first place, as false, and then as contrary to Scripture; and likewise, that, although other teachers of the doctrine are named and condemned, neither Galileo nor any book of his is specified; they are, however, both virtually condemned in the clause, which includes "all books teaching the same doctrine." It seems as if the terms were selected for the very purpose of precluding, or putting to shame, the attempt which would be made in a future age to save the credit of Rome's philosophic orthodoxy at the expense of what was then sincerely deemed her theological, and certainly at the expense of truth. The Dialogo of the Florentine appeared in 1632; and, in 1634, he and his book were both expressly condemned, together with