Bucking The Scientific Establishment
April, 1968
In the latter part of the 16th Century, an Italian philosopher named Giordano Bruno speculated that the stars were really suns like our sun, surrounded by planets like our own earth. Bruno was accused of heresy and pursued through Switzerland, France, England and Germany. Finally, in 1593, the churchmen caught him in Venice. He was thrown into prison, excommunicated and finally turned over to civil authorities with the request that he "be treated gently and without the shedding of blood.&qu...
