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To: koan who wrote (750978)11/2/2013 8:14:12 PM
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Heresy was punished, especially if the heretic was a priest as it seems most of them were. However you can't name a single person put to death over a scientific issue.

BTW, did you know ancient Greek Pythagoreans drowned the mathemetician Hippasus for publicizing the square root of 2. It offended their religious ideas about numbers.



To: koan who wrote (750978)11/2/2013 8:20:15 PM
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Hippasus wasn't the only ancient Greek put to death for heresy ... remember Socrates, whom you mentioned in an earlier post. He was put to death for impieity. Not a coincidence that heresy is a Greek word.


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