Bruno was executed for cosmological heresy in 1600

Evidence

The revolt failed when, as noted earlier, Campanella was arrested and thrown into prison in 1599. In 1600, Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome by the Inquisition for his challenges to the medieval earth-centered cosmology and for his assertion that other sun-planet systems existed. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 500

Categorization

  • XREF: Serves the course’s historical theme that cosmological shifts were politically and institutionally enforced — connects to law/institutions strand across the polyad.