Friday, June 19, 2009

February 1616


A Warning!

By order of Pope Paul V, I have been warned against holding and defending the position that the Sun is the center of our universe. They have communicated with the Inquisition! Again I am called a heretic! I am forbidden to discuss the Copernican theory verbally or in writing.


Image: Portrait of Pope Paul V by Caravaggio.

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