Galileo | Why did they burn Bruno and not Galileo? Why did the Church apologize, even five century latter, for having intimidated Galileo but never regreted having burnt Bruno? Behind a superficial analogy, their cases are uterly different. Firstly, Galileo, like Copernic are scientists. They don't care about religion and if their discoveries may contradict Church des représentatives convictions, it's not on purpose. Bruno, during his trial, clamed being in the same case. But this was only some clever defence. Giordano Bruno never was a scientist. Among thesis for which he was reproached, reincarnation, non-creation of the world and non-virginity of Marie bothered certainly most his accusators than the respective motionsof Earth and the sun.He is an unfrocked priest, anarchist long before first anarchists, disgusted with religion and self declared enemy of christianism, through which he sees hypocrisy, mass exploitation, obscurantism and persécution. If his enemies will finally par lui donner raison, at least about the latest point, he will do his best to get it. |
For, this is the second difference with Galileo and his associates. They bents like reed,he stands or fall like oak. Galileo, who allready shown himself smarter with the principle of inertia understands better that "Yet it moves." is a sentence that should only be whispered. Bruno during seven years, from 1593till the end that we know, will play with his torturers an incredible game. He recants... yet not uterly. He never meant that... but il maintains that... He abjureseverything, but on condition the Pope lui donne raison! One day, all that he have to do before to go out is to sign a declaration whose he negociated the least comma and, at once, some doubt bothers him about a detail.Meanwhile, he is starved, tortured and it seems that it's him whoruns the show. He wears his tormentors out, he exhausts the Supreme Inquisitor Suprême, the Cardinal of Santaseverina,he kills his torturers with work. | | |