WI: A stillborn Protestant Reformation?

I Found Which Scientists were Burned at Stakes

1. Giodano Bruno

2. Nicolaus Copernicus

3. Michael Servetus
Err... are you just trolling now? I'll spot you Bruno, but Copernicus died in bed, and while Michael Servetus was burned at the stake, he was burned by Protestants.

And I should note that I'm a Protestant who considers the Reformation more or less inevitable.
 
He said Jesus was not the Son of God, saying that he was a "very skilled magician".

He also said that Nicolas of Cusa would have been better than Pythagoras if he wasn't a priest.

Nicolas of Cusa was already better than Pythagoras, btw, because Nicholas speculated on the existence of other Star Systems and even said that they might be inhabited.

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1. Not a scientist.

2. Died of natural causes.

3. Killed by Protestants.
As far as we (me and my hubby) are concerned, Bruno just got a much better PR than he deserves, since the actual author of the ideas he promoted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_of_Cusa - was a Cardinal, so Giordano made for much better PR figure since the French Revolution and so on.
He did litetally NOTHING for science that could have been considered a philosophical novelty - he just happened to be more acceptable for atheist scientists than the guy he quoted.
 
A Spanish polymath

I Found Which Scientists were Burned at Stakes

1. Giodano Bruno

2. Nicolaus Copernicus

3. Michael Servetus


About N. Copernicus and G. Bruno I agree and I have nothing to add to the posters above.

But the case of M. Servet is illustrative of the attitude towards religious dissent on booth sides of the theological dispute, when the secular power was still applied opinions and the sentences of the guilty of Heresy according to the ecclesiastical power.

Dispute that led to the loss of the religious unity of the Res Publica Christiana characteristic of medieval Europe.

Michael Servetus or Miguel Servet wasn't a Scientist in the modern sense of term.

He was a heterodox Spanish polymath, physician and autodidact theologian whose unorthodox teachings and Servetus’ involved speculations, what he proposed was clearly odious to booth sides.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus

Led to his condemnation as a heretic by booth Protestants and Roman Catholics and to his execution by Calvinists de Geneva.

Calvin played a prominent part in the trial and pressed for execution, although by beheading rather than by fire.

Servetus was found guilty of heresy, mainly on his views of the Trinity and Baptism and was executed at Champel on October 27, 1553


His execution produced a Protestant controversy on imposing the death penalty for heresy, drew severe criticism upon John Calvin, and influenced Laelius Socinus, a founder of modern unitarian views.
 
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Ignore I somehow missed the other pages and responded too soon. Also why was this brought back?
 
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