Giordano Bruno, surrealistically depicted above by Czechoslovakian artist Zdenek Janda, was burned at the stake in 1600 AD after being found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. There’s historically been some controversy about precisely why he was brought to trial for that. But for one thing, he believed that our sun is a star, among an infinite number of other stars, and that our planet is therefore not the center of the universe. Even worse, he also proclaimed that God and Nature are One, that the physical universe is therefore its own Creator. Back in those days, a public statement of either of those ideas (especially the latter) might’ve been enough to seal his fate. - Source
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