The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19

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To TIE EDIroR OF TEE suN-Sir: Father
Pardow's letter snimadtertlng upon mine
delighted me With its urbanity. but sstonished
me With its logic and its history, The problem
which Father Pardow proposed to himself.
he says, was how to account for great change
In attitude toward Copernicanism. support
ere of this theory had Ions been honored by
private individuals and BY public or semi
public corporations: then. all Of q sudden. the
theory was condemned by the Inquisition.
What caused this radical roiie.facsy
There b no problem here at all. for there 10
no change; there h no change. because We
have two distinct factors 10 deal with. each OF
which continues throughout Independent and
felf- consistent. Many private scholars and
patrons Of scholarship gave their support TO
the new theory from the beginning. After
the condemnation they likewise adhered to
Il, only with a more vehement loyalty born OF
their indignation with the theologasters Of
Roman Curia set itself dead against Coperni-
canism from the moment II took cognizance
of the innovation, and continued set dead
against II for ] don't know how long. perhaps
TO this present hour. Now these two factors.
private scholarship and oficiM c,irialism.
Father Pardow seems ineI plicably TO CON-
found. and considers as the tran formation
Of one element what Is actually the specific
Having placed before himself a problem
which I conceive not TO exist, he solves IL In
a manner totally AGAINST the facts Of history.
The change IN altitude n SicrTI sd b sys ne
Scripture His Copernicanisni. 90. Ne should
infer, was not In itself condemned, but only
exc sesis: yet there 4 the Inaulsition.s decree
against Calico. stigmatizing the heliocentrio
system, ss formally hsreHSsl: . where's 4 we
should expect TO find simply a pronunciation
which left the system upt9uSheSd and merely
accounted for IN the Roman Curia let me put
down few statements OF fact regarding the
knowledge and the two CONGREGATIONS Of the
Inquisition and Of the Index:
FEB 2s. ieIa,Ths heliocen,ric theory an, and
coodsmnsd by tie inauisitlon
March s. Isie-The DE Revolutionibus
sttSq Of > the Sar%eie fsscsriH in dsfenoc
May 10. isie"kePler's ,Epitoms Astrop.
index, Also a general decree, Of the Index
published by which were condemned, hbri
omnes dosentes mobilitatem terrs ct I'M
June "a, isSs-Galleo condemned by the
In $50 the Master of the sacred Palace re-
fused his iaprirnatur TO Giuseppe Settele.
professor ut the Sapienza because the latter,
Elements Of Optics and Astronomy" taught
the C0pernican theory as sCtenunc truth, not
as mere hypothesis When Settefes book
did appear II contained a note written by
cautionine Cathoiics against a system which
appears TO contradict Scripture
up-to-date Cardinals Of the InaulsitiQn
solsmnly decided that books which taught
the mobility OF the earth and the immobility
Of the sun might be printed IN home, me
ISSUE in issS, when the Index Congregation
struck from Its list Of condemnatlons the
names Of Copernicus. Kepler Foscarini ana
With this history before me. ! stand dunn
founded before Father Pardow,s sntsments:
Calico insisted On drassins the Bible i Tbo
scientists TO find sound scientific reasons for
the system Poor Fosoarini found his sound
scientific reasons" In prison. WHITTIER the
Inquisition RENTED him
The word -yesuitical" has two oonnotations
dupllcity and intellectual dishonesty with
those who love the habit OF Loyola u means
supreme and splendid intellectual equipment.
II Father Pardow protests against the ".
nominy Of the first OF these dennitions, II
seems to me that he emeIsee from this DIS,
TO the glory Of the second PHILIP LAsK.
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