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În prealabil postat de Mihnea Dragomir
Mai intai, teoria heliocentrica a fost cristalizata inainte de Galilei, de catre un om al Bisericii: Nikolaus Copernic. Pe urma, pe ce va bazati in a afirma ca a fost obligat "sa abjure" ca sa "nu fie ars pe rug"? Pe cuvintele pe care le-ar fi murmurat "Si totusi se invarteste ?" Sunt o binecunoscuta facatura: prima data se gasesc mentionate aceste cuvinte la mai bine de 100 de ani de la moartea savantului.
Condamnat ? Domiciliu fortat pana la moarte ? Stiti unde a fost inmormantat Galilei ? In cea mai frumoasa biserica din lume: Santa Croce din Florenta. Acolo unde, facand Rozarii si meditatii timp de ore intregi, a observat oscilatiile marelui candelabru, obsevatii pe baza carora a elaborat apoi teoria pendulelor. Inmormantat in interiorul catedralei: ce alta cinste mai mare poate aduce Biserica unui credincios ?
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<<In 1583 he crossed over to England, and, for a time at least, enjoyed the favour of Queen Elizabeth and the friendship of Sir Philip Sidney. To the latter he dedicated the most bitter of his attacks on the Catholic Church, "Il spaccio della bestia trionfante", "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast", published in 1584. He visited Oxford, and, on being refused the privilege of lecturing there, he published (1584) his "Cena delle ceneri", or "Ash-Wednesday Supper", in which he attacked the Oxford professors, saying that they knew more about beer than about Greek. In 1585 he returned to France, and during the year which he spent in Paris at this time made several attempts to become reconciled to the Catholic Church, all of which failed because of his refusal to accept the condition imposed, namely, that he should return to his order.
At this point the Roman Inquisition intervened and requested his extradition. After some hesitation the Venetian authorities agreed, and in February, 1593, Bruno was sent to Rome, and for six years was kept in the prison of the Inquisition. Historians have striven in vain to discover the explanation of this long delay on the part of the Roman authorities. In the spring of 1599, the trial was begun before a commission of the Roman Inquisition, and, after the accused had been granted several terms of respite in which to retract his errors, he was finally condemned (January, 1600), handed over to the secular power (8 February), and burned at the stake in the Campo dei Fiori in Rome (17 February). Bruno was not condemned for his defence of the Copernican system of astronomy, nor for his doctrine of the plurality of inhabited worlds, but for his theological errors, among which were the following: that Christ was not God but merely an unusually skilful magician, that the Holy Ghost is the soul of the world, that the Devil will be saved, etc.>>
<<To the works of Bruno already mentioned the following are to be added: "Della causa, principio ed uno"; "Dell' infinito universo e dei mondi"; "De Compendiosâ Architecturâ"; "De Triplici Minimo"; "De Monade, Numero et Figurâ." In these "the Nolan" expounds a system of philosophy in which the principal elements are neo-Platonism, materialistic monism, rational mysticism (after the manner of Raymond Lully), and the naturalistic concept of the unity of the material world (inspired by the Copernican astronomy).>>
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