122 HISTORY OF SCIENCE. 



Reverend Masters of Sacred Theology, and Doctors of both Laws, 

 Our Assessors, We put forth in this writing touching the matters and 

 controversies before us, between the Magnificent Charles Sincerus, 

 Doctor of both Laws, Fiscal Proctor of this Holy Office, of the one 

 part, and you, Galileo Galilei, an examined and confessed criminal 

 from this present writing now in progress as above, of the other part. 

 \Ve pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo, by rea- 

 son of these things which have been detailed in the course of tin's 

 writing, and which, as above, you have confessed, have rendered your- 

 self vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy: that is to 

 say, that you believe and hold the false doctrine, and contrary to the 

 Holy and Divine Scriptures, namely, that the sun is the centre of the 

 world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth 

 does move, and is not the centre of the world ; also that an opinion 

 can be held and supported as probable after it has been declared and 

 finally decreed contrary to the Holy Scripture, and consequently that 

 you have incurred all the censures and penalties enjoined and pro- 

 mulgated in the sacred canons, and other general and particular con- 

 stitutions, against delinquents of this description. From which it is 

 Our pleasure that you be absolved, provided that, first, with a sincere 

 heart and unfeigned faith, in Our presence, you abjure, curse, and 

 detest the said errors and heresies and every other error and heresy 

 contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome, in the form 

 now shown to you. 



But, that your grievous and pernicious error and transgression may 

 not go altogether unpunished, and that you may be made more cau- 

 tious in future, and may be a warning to others to abstain from delin- 

 quencies of this sort, We decree that the book of the Dialogues of 

 Galileo Galilei be prohibited by a public edict. 



We condemn you to the formal prison of this Holy Office for a 

 period determinable at Our pleasure ; and by way of salutary penance, 

 We order you, during the next three years, to recite once a week the 

 seven Penitential Psalms. 



Reserving to Ourselves the power of moderating, commuting, or 

 taking off the whole or part of the said punishment and penance. 



And so We say, pronounce, and by Our sentence declare, decree, 

 and reserve, in this and in every other better form and manner, which 

 lawfully we may and can use. 



So we, the undersigned Cardinals, pronounce. 



FELIX, Cardinal di Ascoli, 

 GUIDO, Cardinal Bentivoglio, 

 DESIDERIO, Cardinal di Cremona, 

 ANTONIO, Cardinal S. Onofrio, 

 BERLINGERO, Cardinal Gessi, 

 FABRICIO, Cardinal Verospi, 

 MARTINO, Cardinal Ginetti. 



