xx, and elsewhere in the latter.

It is curious to see how even such a biographer as Archbishop Vaughan slurs over the angelic Doctor's errors.

See Vaughan's Life and Labours of St.
Thomas of Aquin, pp.

459, 460.
As to Copernicus's danger at Rome, the Catholic World for January, 1869, cites a speech of the Archbishop of Mechlin before the University of Louvain, to the effect that Copernicus defended his theory at Rome, in 1500, before two thousand scholars; also, that another professor taught the system in 1528, and was made apostolic notary by Clement VIII.

All this, even if the doctrines taught were identical with Copernicus as finally developed--which is simply not the case--avails nothing against the overwhelming testimony that Copernicus felt himself in danger--testimony which the after-history of the Copernican theory renders invincible.