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| They include the fact that both the Holy Office and the Congregation of the Index were keenly aware that the Vatican's peremptory condemnation of scientific hypotheses would arouse memories of the Galileo affair and bring further discredit to the church. Thus "the decision of the Congregation of the Index in Rome in 1616," he suggests, "would probably never have happened in Protestant lands" (186)--and indeed it never did. The book was banned by the Congregation of the Index and remained on its list of prohibited books until 1835. |
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