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DMcG BS: Why Newton was wrong - slightly (86* d) RE: BS: Why Newton was wrong - slightly 29 Jul 20


Maybe, robo, but maybe not. Bruno is another of the cases where our modern understanding of it can easily omit the context. Quoting from the Wiki link you gave:

After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science, although historians agree that his heresy trial was not a response to his astronomical views but rather a response to his philosophical and religious views

Now if Galileo though that the reasons Bruno was executed were because of his views on transubstantiation, migration of the soul, denial of the Trinity and the rest, and not the astronomical views, he might not have thought he was at particularly great risk, since he was not making those sorts of comments.


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