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intelligent but vain man, Barberini had much in common with Galileo both men considered themselves
above the common man. Galileo enjoyed six audiences with Baberini and was rewarded with lavish gifts from
him. Galileo reasoned that the time was now right to publish a new defense of Copernican theory. His
confidence at an all time high, he spent four years composing the new Copernican manifesto. His Dialogue
Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, was cleared by Church censors, one
of whom was Galileo's former student, and was published at Florence in 1632. As the title suggests, Galileo
grounded his manifesto in the form of a dialogue rather than a treatise. The dialogue, Galileo reasoned, was
a device through which an argument for Copernican theory could be made without violating the papal decree
of 1616. Two of the conversants Salviati and Sagredo are sympathetic to Copernican theory. Simplicio,
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