And he was imprisoned in the Inquisition, if he was not actually put to the torture there.

He was pursued by persecution even when dead, the Pope refusing a tomb for his body.
Roger Bacon, the Franciscan monk, was persecuted on account of his studies in natural philosophy, and he was charged with, dealing in magic, because of his investigations in chemistry.

His writings were condemned, and he was thrown into prison, where he lay for ten years, during the lives of four successive Popes.

It is even averred that he died in prison.
Ockham, the early English speculative philosopher, was excommunicated by the Pope, and died in exile at Munich, where he was protected by the friendship of the then Emperor of Germany.
The Inquisition branded Vesalius as a heretic for revealing man to man, as it had before branded Bruno and Galileo for revealing the heavens to man.

Vesalius had the boldness to study the structure of the human body by actual dissection, a practice until then almost entirely forbidden.
He laid the foundations of a science, but he paid for it with his life.