伽利略最大的贡献是对匀速直线运动的研究,观测天文学的发展和科学方法的改进
另外,布鲁诺根本不是科学家,而是哲学家和神学家。哥白尼的学说,在布鲁诺那个时期还不是异端, 所以,他也不是什么捍卫科学才死的,如下
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "…in 1600 there was no official Catholic position on the Copernican system, and it was certainly not a heresy. When…Bruno…was burned at the stake as a heretic, it had nothing to do with his writings in support of Copernican cosmology."
至于他的死因
Catholic Encyclopedia (1908) asserts that "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
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