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Calendar of Scientific Pioneers

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February 17, 1600. Giordano Bruno died.—An enthusiastic supporter of the views of Copernicus and of other new learning, Bruno, after several years spent in visiting France, England, and Germany, returned to his native country, was arrested, and, refusing to recant his philosophical and scientific heresies, was burnt at the stake in the Campo di Fiori, Rome.

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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 106, 817 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106817b0

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