Alberto A. Martínez

'Pythagoras or Christ?: Christians against Pagans: From Pythagoras to Giordano Bruno '

Bog | Engelsk

For more than a thousand years, Christians denounced the Pythagoreans. They complained that Pythagoras did "ten thousand kinds of sorcery": healing the sick, predicting events, and stopping storms over rivers and seas so that his disciples might

'Burned Alive'

Bog | Engelsk

In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually deny that Bruno was condemned for his beliefs about the un