lendar, he was &longs;ent for to <emph type="italics"/>Rome<emph.end type="italics"/> from the remote&longs;t parts of <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Germany,<emph.end type="italics"/> for to a&longs;&longs;i&longs;t in this Reformation, which for that time <lb/>
was left imperfect, onely becau&longs;e as then the true mea&longs;ure of <lb/>
the Year and Lunar Moneth was not exactly known: whereupon <lb/>
it was given him in charge by the Bi&longs;hop of <emph type="italics"/>Sempronia,<emph.end type="italics"/> at that <lb/>
time Super-intendent in that Affair, to &longs;earch with reiterated <lb/>
&longs;tudies and pains for greater light and certainty, touching tho&longs;e <lb/>
C&oelig;le&longs;tial Motions. </s> <s>Upon which, with a Labour truly <emph type="italics"/>Atlantick<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
and with his admirable Wit, &longs;etting him&longs;elf again to that Study, <lb/>
he made &longs;uch a progre&longs;s in the&longs;e Sciences, and reduced the <lb/>
knowledge of the C&oelig;le&longs;tial Motions to &longs;uch exactne&longs;&longs;e, that he <lb/>
gained the title of an Excellent <emph type="italics"/>A&longs;tronomer.<emph.end type="italics"/> And, according <lb/>
unto his Doctrine, not only the Calendar hath been &longs;ince regu<lb/>
lated, but the Tables of all the Motions of the Planets have al<lb/>
&longs;o been calculated: and having reduced the &longs;aid Doctrine into <lb/>
&longs;ix Books, he publi&longs;hed them to the World at the in&longs;tance of <lb/>
the Cardinal of <emph type="italics"/>Capua,<emph.end type="italics"/> and of the Bi&longs;hop of <emph type="italics"/>Culma.<emph.end type="italics"/> And in <lb/>
regard that he had re-a&longs;&longs;umed this &longs;o laborious an enterprize by <lb/>
the order of The Pope; he dedicated his Book <emph type="italics"/>De Revolutioni<lb/>
bus C&oelig;le&longs;tibus<emph.end type="italics"/> to His Succe&longs;&longs;our, namely <emph type="italics"/>Paul<emph.end type="italics"/> III. which, being <lb/>
then al&longs;o Printed, hath been received by The Holy Church, and <lb/>
read and &longs;tudied by all the World, without any the lea&longs;t um<lb/>
brage of &longs;cruple that hath ever been conceived at his Doctrine; <lb/>
The which, whil&longs;t it is now proved by manife&longs;t Experiments and <lb/>
nece&longs;&longs;ary Demon&longs;trations to have been well grounded, there <lb/>
want not per&longs;ons that, though they never &longs;aw that &longs;ame Book in<lb/>
tercept the reward of tho&longs;e many Labours to its Authour, by <lb/>
cau&longs;ing him to be cen&longs;ured and pronounced an Heretick; and <lb/>
this, only to &longs;atisfie a particular di&longs;plea&longs;ure conceived, without <lb/>
any cau&longs;e, again&longs;t another man, that hath no other intere&longs;t in <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> but only as he is an approver of his Doctrine.</s></p>

<p type="main"> <s>Now in regard of the&longs;e fal&longs;e a&longs;per&longs;ions, which they &longs;o unju&longs;tly <lb/>
&longs;eek to throw upon me, I have thought it nece&longs;&longs;ary for my ju&longs;ti<lb/>
fication before the World (of who&longs;e judgment in matters of <lb/>
Religion and Reputation I ought to make great e&longs;teem) to <lb/>
di&longs;cour&longs;e concerning tho&longs;e Particulars, which the&longs;e men produce <lb/>
to &longs;candalize and &longs;ubvert this Opinion, and in a word, to con<lb/>
demn it, not only as fal&longs;e, but al&longs;o as Heretical; continually <lb/>
making an Hipocritical Zeal for Religion their Shield; going a<lb/>
bout moreover to intere&longs;t the Sacred Scriptures in the Di&longs;pute, <lb/>
and to make them in a certain &longs;en&longs;e Mini&longs;ters of their deceiptful <lb/>
purpo&longs;es: and farthermore de&longs;iring, if I mi&longs;take not, contrary to <lb/>
the intention of them, and of the Holy Fathers to extend (that I <lb/>
may not &longs;ay abu&longs;e) their Authority, &longs;o as that even in Conclu&longs;ions <lb/>
meerly Natural, and not <emph type="italics"/>de Fide,<emph.end type="italics"/> they would have us altogether