He was hunted from land to land, until at last he turned on his pursuers with fearful invectives.

For this he was entrapped at Venice, imprisoned during six years in the dungeons of the Inquisition at Rome, then burned alive, and his ashes scattered to the winds.

Still, the new truth lived on.
Ten years after the martyrdom of Bruno the truth of Copernicus's doctrine was established by the telescope of Galileo.( 53) (53) For Bruno, see Bartholmess, Vie de Jordano Bruno, Paris, 1846, vol.i, p.121 and pp.

212 et seq.; also Berti, Vita di Giordano Bruno, Firenze, 1868, chap.

xvi; also Whewell, vol.i, pp.