Teaduslik revolutsioon
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document produced by the Church was clearly forged. It acknowledged that Galileo could not hold, teach or
defend Copernican theory in any way. This was a much stronger prohibition than Galileo could recollect.
Without a defense of any kind, Galileo took his only reasonable option and on June 22, 1633, he recited the
required abjuration on his knees:
Wishing to remove from the minds of your Eminences and of every true Christian this vehement
suspicion justly cast upon me, with sincere heart and unfeigned faith I do abjure, damn, and
detest the said errors and heresies, and generally each and every other error, heresy and sect
contrary to the Holy Church; and I do swear for the future that I shall never again speak or
assert, orally or in writing, such things as might bring me under similar suspicion.
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