Re: Islamic science and the long siesta

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:14:56 UTC, "John Briggs"
<john.briggs4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

I believe the explanation is in the sentence of the Inquisition, where they
contradict themselves:

"Whereas however we wanted to treat you with benignity at that time, it
was decided at the Holy Congregation held in the presence of His Holiness on
25 Feb 1616 that the Most Eminent Lord Cardinal Bellarmine would order you
to abandon this false opinion completely; that if you refused to do this,
the Commissary of the Holy Office would give you an injunction to abandon
this doctrine, not to teach it to others, not to defend it, and not to treat
of it; and that if you did not acquiesce in this injunction, you should be
imprisoned. To execute this decision, the following day at the palace of
and in the presence of the above-mentioned Most Eminent Lord Cardinal
Bellarmine, after beine informed and warned in a friendly way by the same
Lord Cardinal, you were given an injunction by the then Father Commissary of
the Holy Office in the presence of a notary and witnesses to the effect that
you must completely abandon the said false opinion, and that in the future
you could neither hold, nor defend, nor teach it in any way whatever, either
orally or in writing; having promised to obey, you were dismissed."

The injunction was only to be given to Galileo "if [he] refused to do this".
But they go on to say that an injunction was actually served on Galileo,
which it wasn't. Bellarmine had outmanoeuvred the Inquisition, but by 1632/3
both he and that Pope were dead.

Thanks for the passage. I didn't know they had so blatantly admitted that
they hadn't followed their own rules.


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