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He took the risk of thinking freely, of saying, for example, that “There are countless suns and an infinity of planets that orbit them,” when it was blasphemous to consider that we are only a point in the cosmos. And for diverging, the Inquisition burned him at the stake, pulverized his remains with hammer blows and scattered his ashes to the wind so that no one would preserve them as relics. But the ideas of the philosopher Giordano Bruno survived the fire and changed history, irrigating the ideas of thinkers such as the mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, the poet and naturalist Wolfgang von Goethe or the philosopher Friedrich Schelling. Giordano Bruno's life was a constant flight through the cultured Europe of that time. Contact with the most diverse environments of his time enriched his writings with insights that may be useful to us today. His contributions to the arts of memory or mnemonics, considered in his time a field related to witchcraft, alchemy and astrology, are notable, by the way. Bruno spent the last eight years of his life in the prison of the Inquisition, first in Venice and then in Rome, where he was burned on February 19, 1600. In this Science on a Bicycle meeting we will talk about those furrows that inaugurated Giordano Bruno's ideas in science and philosophy. Conversations: Gabriel Jaime Gómez, popularizer and former director of the Medellín Planetarium, Manuela Sánchez, engineer and bookseller at Librería Siempreviva Moderated by: David Vásquez Muriel, biologist, popularizer and master's degree in Science, Technology and Society Studies Do you want to create live broadcasts like this one? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/46109679...