None of that changes what I said though? Galileo was being censored before he wrote his Dialogue, not just afterward like you implied. The church was apparently less open to discussing ideas like that than it was in Copernicus’s time. Even so, the preface Osiander added stressing that De Revolutionibus was purely meant as a calculation system was dedicated to Pope Paul III, who died in 1549 before Galileo was even born…it might not have been required yet, but that makes me wonder if you are sure about the timeline of when that became a concern.
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