The Catholic Church against the Copernican system

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

The Catholic Church against the Copernican system

Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo

The miracle of Joshua suspending the motion of the Sun

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The Catholic Church against the Copernican system, Rome, 5 March 1616
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, Per. Est. 18/4

This sheet publicizes the decision to suspend Copernicus' work reached by the Congregation of the Index after Galileo's so-called "first trial". The Tribunal of the Inquisition began proceedings in 1615 after Galileo was reported by Dominican friar Tommaso Caccini for his Copernican beliefs.