The Dominican Friar Burned at the Stake in Rome on 17 February 1600 for Holding That the Universe Is Infinite and That Other Stars Have Their Own Planets
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in the Campo dei Fiori, Rome, on 17 February 1600. The Roman Inquisition's verdict identified eight specific theological errors. Among them were the doctrines of an infinite universe with countless inhabited worlds. He was 52. His statue at the execution site was erected in 1889 by an Italian liberal-republican fund-raising campaign against the modern Vatican.
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