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trary to Holy Scripture, concerning the movement 

 of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, taught by 

 Nicolas Copernicus in his work on the Eevolutions 

 of the Heavenly Orbs, and by Diego di Zunica in his 

 work on Job, is already spread about and received by 

 many persons, as may be seen in a printed letter 

 of a certain Carmelite Father, entitled 'A Letter 

 of the Kev. Father, Master Paul Anthony Foscarini, 

 on the opinion of the Pythagoreans and of Copernicus 

 respecting the mobility of the Earth and the stability 

 of the Sun, and the new Pythagorean System of 

 the World/ printed at Naples by Lazzaro Scorrigio, 

 1615, in which the said Father endeavours to show 

 that the aforesaid doctrine of the immobility of the Sun 

 in the centre of the universe and the mobility of the 

 Earth is consonant to the truth, and is not opposed 

 to Holy Scripture : Therefore, lest any opinion of 

 this kind insinuate itself to the detriment of Catholic 

 truth, [the Congregation] has decreed that the said 

 [works of] Nicolas Copernicus on the Revolutions 

 of the Orbs and Diego di Zunica on Job should 

 be suspended until they are corrected. But that 

 the book of Father Paul Anthony Foscarini the 

 Carmelite should be altogether prohibited and con- 

 demned ; and that all other books teaching the same 

 thing should equally be prohibited, as by the present 

 decree it prohibits, condemns, and suspends them all 

 respectively. In witness whereof the present decree 

 has been signed and sealed by the hand and seal 

 of the Most Illustrious and Most Keverend Lord 



