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" Its form as a dialogue held the matter within the tolerated limits of Hypothetical treatment. The title expressly declared that no decision was intended to be given, that only the grounds for each of the theories were to be set forth. But certainly no capable man could doubt on which side the weight of argument lay, according to this dialogue. But a condemnation of Galileo by the Inquisition was only possible if every kind of exposition of the Copernican had been for mally forbidden to him personally. Such a special prohibi tion did not exist, and in the position of affairs was impossible. prev next |