Galileo’s style is again so convincing that one is apt to forget the facts: that Copernicus’ book was only ‘accepted by the Church’ with the qualifications that we know; that Caccini, who had preached against it, was reprimanded by the Preacher General of his Order; and that, according to the accepted rules of the game, the scriptural objections could not be refuted on scriptural grounds, only by the scientific proofs which Bellarmine demanded and which Galileo was unable to supply.
