[geye1234]

There is a wonderful (if lengthy) takedown of the "Brave scientist Galileo vs Catholic Church" myth here: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/9-great-ptolemaic-smackd...

[tim333]

They didn't do very well by Giordano Bruno though who proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets and got burned at the stake.

[geye1234]

I'm a bit late responding to this, but I believe this is false, and that his cosmological beliefs had nothing to do with his fate:

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/the-truth-about-giordano-bru...