Formal rehabilitation date The article currently states He was formally rehabilitated in 1741 when Pope Benedict XIV authorized the publication of Galileo s complete scientific works a censored edition had been published in 1718 and in 1758 the general prohibition against heliocentrism was removed from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum However the source referenced implies that he wasn t recommended for formal rehabilitation until 1979 and it wasn t actually done until 1992 So is a correction in order