«Galileo was implicitly claiming definitive knowledge of something that lay beyond the reach of human inquiry» (Ibid. P. 205).
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Galileo Galilei. Le opere… Vol. XIV. P. 383.
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«…the challenge to established Christian belief in God’s creative freedom implicit in Galileo’s Copernican affirmation, as well as in the earlier appeal to a threatening astrological forecast» (McMullin E. The Galileo affair… P. 206).
