 The Galileo affair was largely forgotten after Galileo 's death , and the controversy subsided . The Inquisition 's ban on reprinting Galileo 's works was lifted in 1718 when permission was granted to publish an edition of his works ( excluding the condemned Dialogue ) in Florence . In 1741 Pope Benedict XIV authorised the publication of an edition of Galileo 's complete scientific works which included a mildly censored version of the Dialogue . In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books , although the specific ban on uncensored versions of the Dialogue and Copernicus 's De Revolutionibus remained . All traces of official opposition to heliocentrism by the church disappeared in 1835 when these works were finally dropped from the Index . 
