Astronomer Who Was Silenced: Scientific Suppression by the State Across Four Centuries

He would not recant. So they bound his tongue and burned him alive in a Roman square in 1600, and for four centuries afterward, the men who came after him learned exactly what happens to a mind that refuses to shrink the universe to fit someone else's comfort.This is the story that history keeps trying to forget: the astronomers, physicists, and stargazers who were tried, exiled, imprisoned, erase...