Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-02-24

$500 uceslI 49, 10 appeaf ioAhe
contrary % the sacred Scriptures. :,
true, Gallilsc was juridically bouad to
s''cnce, hut nothing was dyns thatsaSA
tendency to wound his pride. lie was No,
even arraigned. and the witnesses ueain.,
him were Us few as possible ca.
DlNAL BELLARMlNE, the president of Ina
lnqu'siilon, gave HIM cer,lficatcto tha
effect, -that-he- was not visited with ,hei~.
dispIeasure, bst left, free to enwy Il.
opinions, -opinions once more de- esmoa
not hereticai He was 6is0 Sdfn;Wed =, ~
long and friendly audience with the P,n.-.
and ueated with every manifestation NJ
favor and reyard.sw azasuava
The lnqusilisn lwarredf not with the
doctrine. itself, j, only opposed Gallleo,.
manner Of agita,ing II. ftler ii, where /
was found, to be taught and, pro nulya,ej
by eve.y other teacher, who beliycd i
Indeed the decision 10 Gallieo's case VA
scarcely recorded, belnre The astrooom;.
cal chair in the Pope's own university ', !,
Bologna was offered 10 The immoral n
Keper. And he, let i, he remembered.
was one of the most active and efficicn, /.
vo,ar:es Of Copcrnicanism, and wihaI
protestant. Gallileo however violated
the injunction of "opportunc .iIenceu
laced upon him by The lnquisilion aud
after lapse Of II years, he referred n
it in his Dialogues, in terms of sarcasm
and contempt. For that, I've was in fac,
arraigned in 1858 but ,retted to the Ia,t
with lenity and indulgence, with kipdnes,
and consideration. Gratitude, il nothing
else TO URBAN aud his court, should have
restrained Gall.leo in his conduct. During
The period Of his silence. he was as much
cour:ed and admired as in the palniest
days Of his scientific discoveries and cx-
perimcn,s, Ills praises were spoken in
all the elegance Of poetry aud song, and
his friends were drawn around The ne rsou
Of the pontif in posts Of honor and profit,
He visited Rome in 1924 and was most
cordially received. The substantial proofs
Of the esteem and parla!ity Of The pen,ifr
for the Phlosopher, are recorded IN e,e-
ry impartial history of the lime. And
the pension settled on him and his son
unsolicited as il was, attests howEhigh he
was in the favor Of his brother academcian
BAR3ER,NI, then recently elcc.ed TO tho
popeiom. But 10 reiurn; G .lli'eo was
summoned 10 Rome TO answer for his in
fraction ofthe Injunction Of 1916 lie ar.
rived at the Holy City 10 FEB 'uarv 1888,
and rcmained a, the palace Of the Tuscan
Ambassador, until aior his trial had COM
menced. When i. became necessary for
him to be examined personally, she was
honorably lodged 10 the apartments Of
he Fiscal of the lnquisiton." Mr..
DRINKwATER admits at the same time that
Gallieo met with unusual consideration,
and Sir DAVID Brewster, states tha, she
was treated with the most marked nlul.
gencc: that the highest respect was yield.
cd 70 Ills geaius and the kindes, consider,
alton paid 10 his infrmties i.4
The inquiry of the lnqusilion in 1888
avoided any direct examination Of tie
scientific question, and was limited, in,hc
first place, almost entirely 10 lie viola.
ton by Garileo Of his promise not to
discuss The theological ohje, ton. aud his
lnfrac,lon Of the injunction Of 1916, by
which he was bound to ''oppor,une si-
lcncc." And secondly it looked TO the
license and appreciation Of his book,
which was unfairly and improperly oh.
tanned from RlcARpI, the master of,hs
sacred Palace. Upon these grounds a
lone, and with these facts for lis basis,
was the judgment! Of 1888 rendered, and
the sentence passed Thus il appears
from a review OF The foregoing facts.- facts
testified 10 By Sir DAVID BREWSTER, by
HALLAM in has Literature OF Europe, BY
Mr. DR!NKwAIER, and by every unbiass-,
ed historian of the age,-that Galiileo
was never condemned for his science, or
any other mere matter Of opinion, but
for the moral faul, Of having disobeyed
the injunction OF the highes, tribunal in tho
land-a tribunal which he himself invok-
ed,-whose decision he earnestly desired
and loudly demanded, and which he was
finally successful in cxtortng For tho
disregard Of that in junction, accompanied
rs was his disobedence, with insult and
abuse Of the power that enforced it, he
was condemned for the first and last time,
in i633;---in other words for an nggra-
waited contempt Of court. The sentence
was delivered on the ED Of June, and
0dliltto dlicT u HOWtHuL COHpHeHcUL Oh
four days ESQ says Mr. Drinkwa,cr. }
returned to The palace Of the Tuscan Am.
bassador. where he remained unit. July
following He did not 90 back mmedi-
ately TO Florence, because contagious
disease was raging there. bu: stopped at
Sienna with Archbishop Piccoomini, one
Of his most intimate friends, uuiil The
month Of December. The contagion
then having ceased in Tuscany. he re-
turned 10 his own home at Arce,ri near
Florence, where he ended his days.
This is the story Of Gallileo, as have
read il, and feel no doubt that my in-
formation is collected from the most au
then,ic sources, and certainly from the
most impartial, so far as the conduct OF
his prosecutors 10 concerned
And what Of thsm? We're they The ig-
norant and unlearned men, those monks
and Cardinals, Of the middle agos, as
some writer's s,igmatize them? Were
they inimical 10 science, and did they
weld their power and their influence, to
stay its onward progress? Let their con.
nectlnn with this very Cope rnican sys-
tenn answer. The TACT, that KEpLER,
whose discoveries in the same field tho
Lutheran theologians pronounced damaa
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