Censorship & Retraction: Théophraste Renaudot's Gazette and the Galileo Affair, 1631-33

From: Journalism History | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Tolbert, Jane T | Copyright information

In seventeenth-century France, newspapers, which were subject to pre-publication censorship, served as instruments of propaganda for the monarchy, and the Gazette of Théophraste Renaudot was no exception. But in December 1633, he published a retraction for a public conference he held on the heliocentric system and included the Inquisition's sentence against Galileo and condemnation of the Copernican system, which were unknown to most scholars. This article takes the so-called retraction as a...

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