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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : Giordano Bruno accepted the mystical non-Christian philosophy of Hermetism and Copernicus's Heliocentric Theory because he mistakenly believed that it supported Hermetism. He was burned at the stake for his beliefs.

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