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Galileo Galilei upheld the theory of Copernicus that the Earth moves around the sun. The Church opposed him but he ignored. When he published ‘A dialogue on the Two Principal Systems of the World’ in 1632, the Inquisition tried him. He was forced to give up his belief in the Copernican theory, forbidden from writing and publishing, sentenced to an indefinite prison term. Still, he was lucky to escape the tragic end of Giordanno Bruno.

In ‘On the Infinite Universe and Worlds’, Bruno argued that the universe was infinite and that it contained an infinite number of worlds in 1584. He was arrested by the Inquisition and tried. He was kept imprisoned and interrogated periodically. In the end, he was declared a heretic and burned at

Galileo Galilei upheld the theory of Copernicus that the Earth moves around the sun. The Church opposed him but he ignored it. When he published “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” in 1632, the Inquisition tried him. He was forced to give up his belief in the Copernican theory, forbidden from writing and publishing, and sentenced to an indefinite prison term. Still, he was lucky to escape the tragic end of Giordano Bruno.

In “On the Infinite Universe and Worlds”, Bruno argued that the universe was infinite and that it contained an infinite number of worlds in 1584. He was arrested by the Inquisition and tried. He was kept imprisoned and interrogated periodically. In the end, he was declared a heretic and burned at the stake since he refused to recant.
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