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'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo''(Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems Ptolemaic and Copernican) is an unabashed plea for the Copernican system. Copernicus' evidence of the movement of the spots across the face of the sun, Galileo maintained, proved Copernicus' theory was right and Ptolemy's wrong. | '''Description of Artwork:''' ''Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo'' (Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems Ptolemaic and Copernican) is an unabashed plea for the Copernican system. Copernicus' evidence of the movement of the spots across the face of the sun, Galileo maintained, proved Copernicus' theory was right and Ptolemy's wrong. | ||
'''The Incident:''' 1616, Rome, Italy: Galileo was reprimanded by Pope Paul IV, and told not to "hold, teach or defend" the condemned doctrine of Copernicus, whose theory he had tried to reconcile with religion. 1633: ''Dialogo'' banned by Pope Urban VIII for heresy and breach of good faith. | '''The Incident:''' 1616, Rome, Italy: Galileo was reprimanded by Pope Paul IV, and told not to "hold, teach or defend" the condemned doctrine of Copernicus, whose theory he had tried to reconcile with religion. 1633: ''Dialogo'' banned by Pope Urban VIII for heresy and breach of good faith. | ||