Wikipedia's article on the Galileo affair, covering Cardinal Bellarmine's 26 February 1616 admonition and the Congregation of the Index's 5 March 1616 decree, Galileo's 22 June 1633 abjuration and the ban on his Dialogue, the 1758 lifting of the general prohibition on Copernican books, the 1820 Settele controversy and the resulting 1822 decree, the 1835 Index edition that silently dropped both the Dialogue and Copernicus's De Revolutionibus, and the 1979 to 1992 Pontifical Academy of Sciences commission and John Paul II's closing address.
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A tertiary encyclopedia article, used for the settled procedural chronology of the affair's aftermath (the 1758, 1822 and 1835 dates and the 1979 to 1992 commission), each independently checked against a dedicated primary or secondary page for the specific claim rather than relied on alone. NotesThe primary citation for both boundary dates in the Catholic Church's shifting position on heliocentrism: the 1616 to 1835 condemnation era and the 1835 to 1992 permitted-but-unexamined era.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
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