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The Trial of Giordano Bruno

Lecture no. 5 from the course: The Great Trials of World History and the Lessons They Teach Us

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Taught by Professor Douglas O. Linder | 29 min | Categories: History

What made Giordano Bruno's ideas on natural philosophy so dangerous to 16th-century thought? Why does his execution represent a failure of the Roman Inquisition to perform its mission to admonish, not punish? What impact did this trial have on another heresy case fifteen years later: that of Galileo?...