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  • Italy
    Jan, 1616
    Galileo Galilei

    Monsignor Francesco Ingoli initiated a debate with Galileo

    Italy
    Jan, 1616

    In addition to Bellarmine, Monsignor Francesco Ingoli initiated a debate with Galileo, sending him in January 1616 an essay disputing the Copernican system. Galileo later stated that he believed this essay to have been instrumental in the action against Copernicanism that followed in February.




  • Italy
    Friday Feb 19, 1616
    Galileo Galilei

    The Inquisition asked a commission of theologians about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe

    Italy
    Friday Feb 19, 1616

    On February 19, 1616, the Inquisition asked a commission of theologians, known as qualifiers, about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe. Historians of the Galileo affair have offered different accounts of why the matter was referred to the qualifiers at this time. Beretta points out that the Inquisition had taken a deposition from Gianozzi Attavanti in November 1615, as part of its investigation into the denunciations of Galileo by Lorini and Caccini.




  • Italy
    Wednesday Feb 24, 1616
    Galileo Galilei

    Qualifiers delivered their unanimous report

    Italy
    Wednesday Feb 24, 1616

    On February 24 the Qualifiers delivered their unanimous report: the proposition that the Sun is stationary at the centre of the universe is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture"; the proposition that the Earth moves and is not at the centre of the universe "receives the same judgement in philosophy; and ... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith."




  • Italy
    Friday Feb 26, 1616
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was called to Bellarmine's residence

    Italy
    Friday Feb 26, 1616

    At a meeting of the cardinals of the Inquisition on the following day, Pope Paul V instructed Bellarmine to deliver this result to Galileo, and to order him to abandon the Copernican opinions; should Galileo resist the decree, stronger action would be taken. On February 26, Galileo was called to Bellarmine's residence and ordered, to abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it... to abandon completely... the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing. — The Inquisition's injunction against Galileo, 1616.




  • Italy
    1616
    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo circulated his first account of the tides

    Italy
    1616

    For Galileo, the tides were caused by the sloshing back and forth of water in the seas as a point on the Earth's surface sped up and slowed down because of the Earth's rotation on its axis and revolution around the Sun. He circulated his first account of the tides in 1616, addressed to Cardinal Orsini.




  • Bohemia
    Sunday Mar 6, 1616

    Malachias Siebenhaar Brith

    Bohemia
    Sunday Mar 6, 1616

    The composer Malachias Siebenhaar was born in Creibitz, Bohemia.




  • Netherlands
    Saturday Apr 23, 1616

    The Netherlands bought De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens

    Netherlands
    Saturday Apr 23, 1616

    The Netherlands purchased De Briel/Vlissingen/Fort Rammekens from England.


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