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>tfw Hypatia (355 – 415)
>tfw Michael Servetus (1511 – 1553)
>tfw Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600)
>tfw Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
>tfw Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743 – 1794)
>tfw Georgii Dmitrievich Karpechenko (1899 – 1941)
>tfw Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (1887 – 1943)
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>>16956251
Some of these aren't exactly good examples of what you're trying to convey.
Hypatia supported a Jewish, anti-christian rebellion that resulted in the deaths of several Christian people. Though her support of the losing side in a contested bid for the See of Alexandria was probably the real reason for her death.
Servetus was an outspoken anti Trinitarian and opposed infant baptism as the work of satan.
Galileo wasn't executed and he was offered an easy out by the Inquisition that he refused to take (basically describing his findings as a potential model rather than incontrovertible fact, which would be more in line with the modern philosophy of science anyway.)
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>>16956289
Galileo did take the out, he just fucked himself over later by trying to creatively flout the terms he was given (no advocating the heliocentric model) without technically flouting them. And even then he was only sentenced to house arrest.
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>>16956289
>>16956661
The funny thing abut Galileo was that he wasn't even trying to insult the Church. In his book on the heliocentric model, he was shitting on people he personally knew and fellow nobles that believed the geocentric model by portraying them as a retard. They got pissed and lied to the clergy and bishops that he was insulting them and then that's how his trial even happened.
Also Giordano Bruno was just a schizo that believed in shit like multiple universes and practiced weird occult bullshit that very clearly wasn't science and not ordained by the Church at all. He basically screwed himself over by being a weirdo.
Personally, I hate these meme martyrs for science. Most of them died or were imprisoned for reasons not scientific or religious and the ones that were like Bruno were just weird occult LARPers that didn't even do anything remotely scientific. By the 1200s, the Franciscans Roger Bacon, and Robert Grossteste already had developed the earliest version of the scientific method and Thomas Aquinas had already written a bunch of treatises on natural philosophy.
Most religious at the time were well versed in science and weren't hyper-superstitious to the point of becoming like their Muslim counterparts at the time, who destroyed their own scientific advances because an imam said "philosophy is gay and blashpemous LMAO".
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>>16956747
>Most religious at the time were well versed in science and weren't hyper-superstitious
And by that I mean ordained religious. Commonfolk were very much hyper-superstitious but they don't really factor into the equation much.