THE CONTRIBUTION OF GIORDANO BRUNO TO THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

@article{Angelis2015THECO,  title={THE CONTRIBUTION OF GIORDANO BRUNO TO THE PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY},  author={Alesandro De Angelis and Catarina Espirito Santo},  journal={Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage},  year={2015},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:118420438}}
The trial and condemnation of Giordano Bruno was mainly based on arguments of philosophical and theological nature, and therefore different from Galilei's. Such elements contribute to unfairly devalue the scientific contribution of Bruno and do not properly account in particular for his contribution to physics. This paper discusses the contribution of Bruno to the principle of relativity. According to common knowledge, the special principle of relativity was first enunciated in 1632 by Galileo… 

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