Isn't Alan Moore the guy who claimed magic is real and once met John Constantine in a bar?
Isn't Alan Moore the guy who claimed magic is real and once met John Constantine in a bar?
It's an interesting aspect of history that often gets overlooked…scientific thinkers with mystical preoccupations. Would be interesting to see a documentary or series on guys like Isaac Newton, Emanuel Swedenborg, Paracelsus, Rudolph Steiner, David Bohm, etc.
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that.
Oh I don't disagree. Just saying that they glossed over a lot of who he was, and philosophical influences and beliefs that kind of muddle the whole "martyr for science" role the show was carving out for him. His significance in science and even what the "true" nature of his reasons for execution still seem to be…
I like how in presenting Bruno as a martyr purely for science, they completely left off the occult (or Hermetic more accurately) dimension that played a very large role in the formation of his ideas. If you look at the list of charges he was brought up on, besides his belief in an infinite universe, he was also…