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A portion of a bronze relief created by Italian sculptor Ettore Ferrari (1845–1929) depicting the trial of Giordano Bruno by the Roman Inquisition in 1600.
1600: Giordano Bruno – Visionary of a Universe Beyond Earth

Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar, was an early advocate of Copernican heliocentrism in the sixteenth century. His radical ideas extended beyond Copernicus, proposing an infinite universe with countless inhabited planets. Despite being [...]