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Ifwe look back, burning as a form of execution is recorded in the Code of Hammurabi, as a punishment for arson. The last person executed by burning in England, if I recall correctly, was in the late 18th century for the crime of counterfeiting.

By their standards execution of a heretic with burning was not much different than executing any other traitor with burning. Even in the modern era some people believe certain crimes deserve death. They just believed in one more.

Bruno revived ancient idea of atomism, theory of matter, and on this ground he could oppose to Transubstantiation. The idea that Jesus body is composed of finite number of atoms, that was indeed huge heresy.

Atomism in itself is heretical. It is incompatible with transubstantiation, main christian mystery, witch is in the very core of religion, and in middle age, they understand this perfectly well. They taught atomism as example of wrong philosophy.

By the way, real accusation against Galileo were likely not heliocentrism, but atomism. With time Galileo also became an atomist, and that was absolute no no from the church point of view.

Bruno was one of the first in Europe, who attempted (successfully ) to revive atomism. As far as I know, there were some alchemist, who also return to atomistic ideas.

A single argument which may have influenced Galileo does not make the guy a scientist. Again, Galileo was a scientist. He used empiricism and measurement and careful observation, not just this kind of philosophical thought experiment. Stop clutching at straws and stop wasting my time.

Galileo was the founder of experimental physics, and he lived after Bruno. So, beside astronomy, there was not such thing as experimental science in Bruno time. Do not confuse 16 and 17-18 centuries.

A single argument which may have influenced Galileo does not make the guy a scientist.

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This single argument is relativity principle and principle of inertia, the discoveries, for which Galileo credited the most. From this two arguments, which contradicted erroneous Aristotelian view which was held for centuries, modern physics began. And Bruno argued exactly on the basis of observations.

You dedicate your writing to atheists. Typical atheist do not believe in transubstantiation because it contradicts physical laws of Nature, he exactly do not believe because transubstantiation contradict science and observations. Believe me, he will be on Bruno side, when it comes to believing in Jesus virgin birth. It contradicts observations.

Nonsense. Atomism in physics do not reduce to atomism in chemistry. For example: Newton theory of light or particle explanations of gases and heat, explanations of crystal structure, there were even particle theories of gravity. And all this was done without explicit proof of atoms existence, which were not available until 20-th century. Scientists simply were fascinated with explanatory power of atomic hypothesis. Scientist got idea from philosophers.

More nonsense. Galileo took up and utilised methods used by people who had been doing empirical science long before him. .. pursuing the examination of the natural world using measurement and mathematics

He was a co-author (Buridan, Oresme, Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, Descartes) of the greatest discovery of the 16-th century, Galileo relativity principle and concept of inertia.

He was scientist wether you like it or not.

Looks like someone published something about a year after Tim posted tis blog and on the blog for the popular periodical Scientific American:

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From my limited understanding, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition is the seminal work that rewrote our understanding of the guy, but has also been superseded by more recent research in some places.

I checked out that PZ Meyers link and man, one of the only ones with half a clue what he was on about was that John guy. The rest spewed some heavy nonsense. I would have posted there telling them this if comments were enabled.

P.Z. Myers is somehow wrong to see it as bad that these things occurred, not just because it misreads history, but because any moral sentiments we might have in reaction to it are merely historically contingent fads with no valid basis beyond some modern cultural zeitgeist.

Liberty? Success? Courage? Intelligence? Prosperity? In no case, I think, is the fact that something is valued by many people in the twenty-first century grounds for doubting that it could have been valued also by people in the sixteenth century.

I am thoroughly enjoying your posts and working my way through THE GREAT MYTHS after stumbling on to your post CATS, THE BLACK DEATH AND A POPE. The use of biased, erroneous or distorted pseudo knowledge of any form be it history or science or other is an ongoing human tragedy. The modern Information Age has created exponential growth in disinformation or if you prefer, information overload. Your attempts to focus on the most relevant sources and search for a consensus among generally recognized experts in their fields is both admirable and appreciated. Enjoyable and at times entertaining reads.

Thank you for doing the legwork of wading through the erroneous and superficial.

Despite being atheists, most people are still inserted in some way in their cultural context. People from mostly protestant countries still despise more the Catholic Church and buy any myth against it, despite almost all Christian Young Earth Creationists and the ID movement coming from neopentecostal evangelical protestants.

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