Really?
Giordano Bruno was tried by the Inquisition for his “heliocentric heresy”, but he did not “recant”, as Galileo did.
Bruno was burned at the stake. Perhaps he should have “recanted”, too.
As unjust as it appears to modern eyes, Bruno was executed for a whole litany of heresies, whereas Galileo was tried not for his Copernican beliefs but for teaching theory as fact. He was also well-connected and would not have had to go through what he did if he hadn't not only refuse to present his theory as theory but repeatedly and very publicly antagonize the authorities. His personality was like one of those jackasses at the end of the bar who insults everybody for no good reason and it came back to bite him.
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