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Spotlight on Women in Astronomy!
Amy Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. She also worked with others on discoveries concerning stellar activities in distant galaxies. She is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Amy earned her PhD in Astronomy in 1997 from King's College, University of Cambridge, and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Annie J Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.
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Who was Giordano Bruno?
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Bruno is often referred to at the first ‘martyr’ of science - generally because he was burnt at the stake by the Church. Bruno was a philosopher who believed in an infinite universe, but he wasn't the only one at that time. He was influenced by Nicolas of Cusa, Thomas Aquinas, and Copernicus. Brunohimself didn't do any 'scientific' studies of the sky, he relied upon the work of others like Thomas Digges and John Dee to inform his philosophy. Copernicanism, was relatively unknown to the general population in the late 1500s and early 1600s, and was not any threat to the Church. Despite Bruno’s death in 1600, De Revolutionibus was still being published in Italy after 1616 (with a number of revisions), and wasn’t banned until 1664. Although Bruno was a believer in the heliocentric universe, it’s likely that Bruno was punished for his unorthodox (hermetic) beliefs about the holy trinity, and his supposed use of magic, rather than his belief in a heliocentric universe.
Dominican Monk - Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600)
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