Galileo's Sunspot Letters, published in 1613, underwent extensive censorship before publication. It seems likely that the Roman Inquisition had charge of the pre-publication review of Galileo's work, rather than the usual organ, the Master of the Sacred Palace. A study of that process demonstrates that the issue to which the censors objected was Galileo's use of the bible, not his allegiance to Copernicus. In the course of the first phase of Galileo's trial, orchestrated by one of the most powerful Cardinal Inquisitors, two propositions allegedly drawn from the book were judged either formally heretical or at least erroneous in the faith. These judgments might have come not from the published book but from the Inquisition's censorship of its drafts. They supported Galileo's silencing in 1616.
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