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Aftermath of the Galileo Affair: Scientific Censorship

Type Event Region Europe Time 1660–1669

After Galileo's 1633 trial, Italian scholarship in the 1660s remained constrained by Church censorship: experimental natural philosophy continued cau…

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  1. 1660–1665Florence · TuscanyAfter the Galileo affair, Italian experimental natural philosophy developed cautiously under Church supervision, prioritizing observable phenomena and measurement while avoiding open challenges to forbidden doctrines such as the motion of the Earth.
  2. 1665–1669Rome · LazioIn the 1660s Galileo's mechanics and kinematics spread mainly through editions and correspondence networks in the Netherlands and France; domestic Italian publication remained bound by the Index and censorship, creating a gap between internal and external scholarship.

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