tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post4766263763767939703..comments2024-03-29T08:49:16.357+00:00Comments on Retro-Forteana: Galileo wasn’t always right...Andrew Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-2887475616707453152012-03-25T17:35:47.716+01:002012-03-25T17:35:47.716+01:00Thanks very much. I'm a much bigger fan of Bru...Thanks very much. I'm a much bigger fan of Bruno, who is vastly underrated, than I am of Galileo, who is vastly overrated. I did a post about Bruno last year - <a href="http://forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/man-who-invented-aliens.html" rel="nofollow">The man who invented aliens</a>.Andrew Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17073306343984931484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2012179240296572398.post-25440658678146044292012-03-25T16:24:39.053+01:002012-03-25T16:24:39.053+01:00While Galileo was sanctioned by the church and rec...While Galileo was sanctioned by the church and recanted, Giordano Bruno actually died for his ideas.<br /><br />Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who not only defended the Copernican model of universe but also argued that the sun was only one sun amongst many others that existed in the space. He believed that there were many other worlds and that they were also inhabited.<br /><br />He was deeply influenced by Hermeticism and Neoplatonism and therefore he argued that the soul incarnates many times in different bodies in order to evolve and that human life could continue in different planets as well as having its origin in other globes, due to a process known as transmigration of the soul.<br /><br />He interpreted the Bible according to the Hermetic knowledge and argued that certain concepts such as the virginity of Mary, the Trinity and the Transubstantiation had a symbolic meaning that was different from what it was regularly taught. Giordano Bruno was declared guilty of heresy and blasphemy and he was burnt at the stake in 1600.<br /><br />Read more at Suite101: Philosophers Condemned by the Inquisition: Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei, Tommaso Campanella and Menocchio | Suite101.com http://thaiscampos.suite101.com/philosophers-condemned-by-the-inquisition-a209126#ixzz1q8tNYIgnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com