ItiscurioustoseehowevensuchabiographerasArchbishopVaughanslursovertheangelicDoctor’serrors。SeeVaughan’sLifeandLaboursofSt。ThomasofAquin，pp。459，460。
AstoCopernicus’sdangeratRome，theCatholicWorldforJanuary，1869，citesaspeechoftheArchbishopofMechlinbeforetheUniversityofLouvain，totheeffectthatCopernicusdefendedhistheoryatRome，in1500，beforetwothousandscholars；also，thatanotherprofessortaughtthesystemin1528，andwasmadeapostolicnotarybyClementVIII。Allthis，evenifthedoctrinestaughtwereidenticalwithCopernicusasfinallydeveloped——whichissimplynotthecase——availsnothingagainsttheoverwhelmingtestimonythatCopernicusfelthimselfindanger——testimonywhichtheafter-historyoftheCopernicantheoryrendersinvincible。TheverytitleofFromundus’sbook，alreadycited，publishedwithinafewmilesofthearchbishop’sowncathedral，andsanctionedexpresslybythetheologicalfacultyofthatsameUniversityofLouvainin1630，utterlyrefutesthearchbishop’sideathattheChurchwasinclinedtotreatCopernicuskindly。Thetitleisasfollows：
Ant-AristarchussiveOrbis-TerraeImmobilis，inquodecretumS。
CongregationisS。R。E。Cardinal。an。M。DC。XVIadversusPythagorico-Copernicanoseditumdefenditur，Antverpiae，MDCXXI。
L’Epinois，Galilee，Paris，1867，laysstress，p。14，onthebroachingofthedoctrinebyDeCusain1435，andbyWidmanstadtin1533，andtheirkindtreatmentbyEugeniusIVandClementVII；