The HEX/base64 image
"LesTroisMages.png" is actually a bronze relief of
"Giordano Bruno Trials" located at the Campo de' Fiori in Rome. (apparently there was a poster located at the Campo dei Fiori; still looking for image)
Name in Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus - here is a decent
bio on BrunoBio from Wiki:
born
Filippo Bruno, was an
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer. He is
celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as
cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".
Beginning in 1593, Bruno was
tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of several core Catholic doctrines (including
the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and Transubstantiation). Bruno's pantheism was also a matter of grave concern.
The Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori. After his death he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science,[5] although historians have debated the extent to which his heresy trial was a response to his astronomical views or to other aspects of his philosophy and theology. Bruno's case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.
In addition to cosmology,
Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that
Bruno was deeply influenced by Arab astrology, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and legends surrounding the Egyptian god Thoth. Other studies of Bruno have focused on
his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.
Interesting connections: burning at the stake; fire (inferno), suns/exoplanets (spheres), the .png file is named
"LesTroisMages" = Three Kings/wise men/maji who were thought to have been astrologers from the "East" that followed a star to where the Christ was laying in a barn outside of Jerusalem. Historically, it is thought that the magi did not reach the Christ until Jan 6th; some 2 weeks after his birth. January 6th is celebrated as
"The Day of Epiphany" or
"Epiphany feast".
