PRIDE CHEKERAVictims of the truth
To me, this was the revolutionary point of astronomy, an
understanding of the kinematics of the heavens and all its
celestial objects. Before Galileo looked up to the heavens
through his telescope, Mikolaj Kopernik, well known for the
Copernican principle, discovered a new model of the universe,
contradicting with the religious worldview of geocentricism.
During that time, spanning to Galileo, it was to mandatory for
everyone to abide to the philosophical doctrines regarding the
model of the universe.
Anyone found against it was brutally tortured and persecuted.
This happened in 1500, when an Italian astronomer Giordano
Bruno discovered that other stars were other suns around which
other worlds revolved. This was against the geocentric model,
and thus Bruno was brutally treated, dragged naked in streets
and burnt to ashes. The church hindered a rising new field of
thought, physics. Not only in physics; Antony Lavoisier was a
chemist who discovered conservation of mass and he was
guillotined on 8 May 1794 in Paris after he was accused of being
an intruder of a fire outbreak since he had discovered a gas
necessary for combustion (it was oxygen he named
deflogistigated air) during the electrolysis of water. Like Bruno,
Michael Servetus was burnt to ashes on the stake by the