[113] P. 577.
[114] P. 59.
[115] Introd. p. 2.
[116] London, 1809.
[117] In a most able article, by Mr. Drinkwater, on the "Life of Galileo," published in the "Library of Useful Knowledge," it is stated that both Galileo's work, and the book of Copernicus, "Nisi corrigatur" (for, with the omission of certain passages, it was sanctioned), were still to be seen on the forbidden list of the Index at Rome, in 1828. I was, however, assured in the same year, by Professor Scarpellini, at Rome, that Pius VII., a pontiff distinguished for his love of science, had procured a repeal of the edicts against Galileo and the Copernican system. He had assembled the Congregation; and the late Cardinal Toriozzi, assessor of the Sacred Office, proposed that they should wipe off this scandal from the church." The repeal was carried, with the dissentient voice of one Dominican only. Long before that time the Newtonian theory had been taught in the Sapienza, and all Catholic universities in Europe (with the exception, I am told, of Salamanca); but it was always required of professors, in deference to the decrees of the church, to use the term hypothesis, instead of theory. They now speak of the Copernican theory.
[118] Elementary Treatise on Geology. London, 1809. Translated by De la Fite.
[119] See Dr. Fitton's Memoir, before cited, p. 57.
[120] Whewell, British Critic, No. xvii. p. 187, 1831.
[121] Discours sur les Révol. &c.
[122] Niebuhr's Hist. of Rome, vol. i. p. 5. Hare and Thirlwall's translation.