Bellarmino Admonition
Cardinal Bellarmino formally admonishes Galileo not to hold or defend the Copernican doctrine.
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1616 in Italy
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Copernican System
Galileo circulates his first account of the tides in 1616, addressed to Cardinal Orsini. Cardinal Bellarmine, acting on directives from the Inquisition, delivered an order not to "hold or defend" the idea that the Earth moves and the Sun stands still at the centre
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