Re: Galileo's Birthday
Don't forget Giordano Bruno The Italian monk of the sixteenth century, author of "The Infinite Universe and Worlds" (1584) who was burned at the stake by the inquisition commissioned by the Catholic church, for heresy.
"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun.
Living beings inhabit these worlds."
- Giordano Bruno