From: MarcusJohn@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 21:59:04 PST
I saw some of this show just a few hours ago. As an added bonus for us
Setizens, it showed the sorry history of our old friend Giordano Bruno being
burned at the stake. They actually had an actor portrayed being burned. They
showed him with this horrendous contraption over his head which held a plug
in his mouth so that he could not scream. Of course his hands were tied to
the stake. Their portrayal was that he was burned for postulating that the
earth was not the center of the universe. As far as I can tell, they
mentioned nothing about his extrasolar planets hypothesis.
The show mentioned that Galileo was acutely aware of the fate of Bruno, and
that maybe affected his decision to succumb to the will of the evil
inquisitors.
John Marcus.
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