Yea, but they spent 1/4 of the show on Bruno (killed by the church), but barely mentioned Copernicus or Galileo (neither killed by the Church)
Why spend so much time on him unless to show the brutality of the church?

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:34 am to junior

i saw about 20-30 min of the first episode and i was wondering why they essentially skipped copernicus

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Posted by The Sad Banana

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Posted on 3/17/14 at 7:35 am to junior

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Yea, but they spent 1/4 of the show on Bruno (killed by the church), but barely mentioned Copernicus or Galileo (neither killed by the Church)
Why spend so much time on him unless to show the brutality of the church?

To show science's struggle with the Church, maybe? I'm a Catholic but I can see the validity in showing how wrong the Church was back then. I don't see why that's got to be some indictment on the Church today.

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Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:03 am to junior

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Yea, but they spent 1/4 of the show on Bruno (killed by the church), but barely mentioned Copernicus or Galileo (neither killed by the Church)
Why spend so much time on him unless to show the brutality of the church?

Jesus, this again? Because Bruno was the only "scholar" to believe in a universe in the same manner that modern scientists believe. Even Copernicus and Galileo did not fathom the extent of the universe in the same fashion that Bruno did and in the same fashion that Tyson (and other modern scientists) do. Couple that with the fact that it is an interesting story that has largely gone unnoticed, and you have your answer.

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