New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-15
CALICO.
ma. cs.deuns dos and AbIuratisp.

..vsrssy received that the Sun il the center OF our
,,.o.,.,, ,,st.u and the Earth one among several
cribs periodically revolving around that center, has
be-, yer, widely credited but not fully admitted. We
xx. ,snestedly met assertions thai what the 1nqus-
tioo condemned not the abstract doctrine Oh ~
perpicus and Calico, but the presump,uou' s'emP,
Of the latter TO base it upon and esabsh IL oy 'eA
Scripture We feel obliged, therefore, 70 inc i'."u
Who has sent us, in Bdikers H1e'"'d" magazine ,o'
Feb 1892 .teral translation of the Sentence ac'u1V
named on Calico by the Pspa lnqustof'' Voso'''
With bis ADMIRATION therein eIsesed. Inc mag ~"o
E.I-, ~. ss,,eoe. had never before appeared in
49, IA provincial newspaper few years be-
"a ,,., the authenticity and accuracy Of the fol-
-, .-..,.,on NAV be relied on. The intrinsic
~ .ucb authenticity is very decisive. Itseems
=, ,bs, tbi. sentence may probably be pondered,
No, alone BY champions Of Papsl insbiity, but BY all
sho.e WHO regard dissent from the interpretations OF
s~rpture insisted by the csnOns Of their respective
...,. q. unou,mous with Inhdelity. Read and con-
sider -,
shSfhS0ffy dnfsiTHos. WITH HIS ABJURAT1oS
We Gaspar of the title Of Holy Cross Of jerusalem
t,orois brother Felix Certinus of the title OF st. Ana
sfata surnamed Of Asculum.
Cndus Of the title Of St. Mary Of the people Ben,i-
yolus brother Desiderus Scaglia, Of the hte o. %.
Charles surnsmed OF CremODa
Brother Antonus Barbarinus, unnamed OF ~. Onu-
rhrus IAndyius Zacchia Of the title OF St. Peter IN
tipculi, unnamed Of ~. Sixtus.
Berliug erius of the title of St Augustln OyPosu''
Fabrcius Of st. Lawrence
Francis Of St Lawrence
Martin Of the St. Mary and GlDethls, Descons Dy
The mercy OF God CardiDals Of the Holy Roman Catholic
Church, and specially deputed BY the iioy APosooca
See AZ DqustOr general against beretica perVersene'
throughout the whole Christian Commonwealth;
whereas you Calico SOD Of the late Vincent Galieo
of Florence being seventy years OF age, bad chsrge
brought against you, in the year lOl1 IN TINS nVy oc
that you held true all erroneous opinion heid ny many
namely: That the il n the center OF the world ana
;nmnvsble and that the earth moves even with dur
nal motion also that you had certain scholars INTO whom
YOU intted the doctrne also that you maintained
corre,p0Ddfnce on this point with certain mathema
tcans OF Germany also that you published certain ePs-
Ties treating of the solar spots IN which you explained
the same doctrine true, because you answered 70 me
objections which, from time TO time, were brought
against you taken from the Holy scriptures ny Guessing
over the said scripture according 70 your own sense ana
that afterward when copy OF writing In the FORM Ol
nm epistle written by you 10 certain late scholar Oh
yours was presented to you Ut following the hypothesis
of Copernicus you stood up for and defended certain
propositions in II which against the true sense ah1
authority ofthe Holy Scripture.
This holy tribunal desiring, therefore, TO provide
against the and mlschefs which have lssl-
cd hence and increased, 10 the danger OF our holy ah
agreeable TO the mandate of lord N. and the very
eminent doctors cardinals of this supreme and universal
inquision two propositions respecting the mmobiy o
the sun and the motion of the earth were adopted aud
pronounced. a. under;
That the sun is in the center Of the world, and in
movable in respect Of local notion is an absurd propo
sition false in philosophy and formally hereca seeing
il il eIpressly contrary 10 holy scripture
The earth Is not the center OF the world nor immoy
able but moves even with durna motion, Is also an
absurd proposition false in philosophy and, considered
theoloeicsly, IL at least an error III faith
But whereas thought fit in the interim to proceed
gently with YOU il was agreed upon in the holy c0ngre
CATION held before ID n, the 25th day Of February
1916 that the most eminent lord cardinal Bcllarmin
should inoin you entirely TO recede from the ahresa
false doctrine and on your refusal II was Commanded
the com,sary Of the holy office, that you should recah
the ,sd false doctrine and should bot teach 1t to ether'
nor defend it, nor dispute concerning 1t; to which CON
ubnd il you would not submit, that YOU should DC cas-
into prison; and, in order to put IN execution INC sa
decree on the following day you were gently adinonsho
In the palace before abOvesaid most eminent lord card
nal BeurmDe and afterward by the same lord cardinal
and by the comInssary of the holy office, notary AM
witnesses being present entirely to desls from the sa
erroneous opinon and that thereafter il should not b
perntted YOU 10 defend it, teach IT, IN any manner
either by speaking writing and, whereas you prom
ised obedience, you at that time dismissed
And 20 the end that such apeDcous dOc' rne might ID
entirely extirpaed away aud spread farther To th
sreyous detriment of the Catholic verify, decree Wa
Issued by the holy congregations lnd6,S prohibiting th
printing Of books which treat OF such sort oil doctrine
wbch was the rein pronounced false and altogether con
trary 10 holy divine scripture But the same book ha
since appeared at Florence published in the year las
mast the inscription of which showed that you we're Il
author as the title was "A Dialogue Of GalleO Gael
concerning the principal stems of the world tn
Ptoemaic and the Coperniean. rs the holy congregation
recognizing from the Impression OF the aforesaid book
that the false opinion concerning the motion OF the cart
and the immobiiy Of the sun-prevaed daily NOR
and more; the aforesaid book diligently examined
when We openly discovered the trangression Of tn
aforesaid command before enoined YOU seeing that i
the same book had resumed and defended the aiore
sad opinion already condemned and 10 your presenc
declared 70 be erroneous; because, the said book b.
various circumlocuons you earnestly endeavor 10 per
ruade that it left by you undecided and at the leas
probable which necessarily be grlevcus error
aimee an opinion can by no means he probable whic
hath already been declared and adudsed contrary 10 d
vine scripture.
Wherefore YOU have by our authority been summon
ed 20 this our holy office in which being examined yo
have ON oath acknow lodged the said book write
and printed by YOU: And have also confessed that abou
ten o twelve years after the Injunction had bee
given YOU as above the said book begun To be writ
ten BY YOU Also that you petOned for license TO pub
sh IT, but without signify inc 60 those who gave you
license that il had been prohibited you by al
means 10 maintain defend, teach such doctrines
You likewise confessed that the writing of the afore
said book was composed in many places, that IN
reader might think the arguments adduced the falls
part calculated rather to perpex the understandings D.
their weight than be easily resolved eNcusng yourself
by saying, you had fallen into error SO Oreiga iron
your intention las declared because you had han
dice the snbect in the form Of dialogue and becaus
of the natural cOmplaisance, which every one hath Il
maintaining his Arguments and in showing himSel
more acute than others in defending false PROPOSE
tioDs by ingenious deductions and of apparent proba
bity.
"A yh.o a TINA WAS aSsigne1 vou max voif