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Talk:World History Lecture Eight (view source)
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, 15:03, March 26, 2009→Copernicus
:--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 10:35, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
:--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 10:35, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Copernicus attracted at least the interest of the ''General Congregation of the Index'' which stated:
<blockquote>''This Holy Congregation has also learned about the spreading and acceptance by many of the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether contrary to the Holy Scripture, that the earth moves and the sun is motionless, which is also taught by Nicholaus Copernicus's ''On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' and by Diego de Zuniga's ''On Job''. This may be seen from a certain letter published by a certain Carmelite Father, whose title is ''Letter of the Reverend Father Paolo Foscarini, on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion of the Earth's Motion and Sun's Rest and on the New Pythagorean World System'' (Naples: Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1615), in which the said Father tries to show that the above-mentioned doctrine of the sun's rest at the center of the world and the earth's motion is consonant with the truth and does not contradict Holy Scripture. Therefore, in order that this opinion may not creep any further to the prejudice of Catholic truth, the Congregation has decided that the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) and Diego de Zuniga (On Job) be suspended until corrected;[..] [http://www1.umn.edu/ships/galileo/library/1616docs.htm#indexdecree]</blockquote>
:::So, there was at least one influential fraction of the Catholic authorities which detested the work of Copernicus as much as Martin Luther. [[User:ClementB|Clement ♗]] 11:03, 26 March 2009 (EDT)