{"id":14037,"date":"2014-03-17T06:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14037"},"modified":"2014-03-17T06:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:52:37","slug":"who-was-giordano-bruno-and-what-did-he-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=14037","title":{"rendered":"Who was Giordano Bruno and what did he believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I watched the first episode in the new television series <a href=\"http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/channel\/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey\/\">&#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The programme mentioned an Italian called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giordano_Bruno\">Giordano Bruno<\/a> (1548-1600)\u00a0who believed that the sun was merely one of many stars. I confess that I had never heard of Bruno.<\/p>\n<p>There has been some controversy over the selection and representation of Bruno which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/outthere\/2014\/03\/13\/cosmos-giordano-bruno-response-steven-soter\/#.UyYnHlzRrzh\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I watched the first episode in the new television series &#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221;. The programme mentioned an Italian called Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)\u00a0who believed that the sun was merely one of many stars. I confess that I had never heard of Bruno. There has been some controversy over the selection and representation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14037"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14043,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14037\/revisions\/14043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}