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profitable controversies. From the time of
Galileo onwards, for some time, opponents
of religion included the theory of the Earth’s
motion in their disputations, not so much
for the love, or knowledge, of astronomy,
as for the pleasure of putting the Church
in the wrong. This created a great deal
of bitterness and intolerance on both sides.
Among the sufferers was Giordano Bruno,
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