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Alberto Martinez / Heretical Exoplanets

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Alberto Martinez / Heretical Exoplanets

Click above to listen to part 1 of Radical Cosmology, featuring Alberto Martinez, professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo & the Inquisition, telling the story of a sixteenth century astronomer who was burned at the stake for suggesting planets might orbit other stars.

Radical Cosmology:
Part 1: Alberto Martinez / Heretical Exoplanets 
Part 2: Anne Schukraft / Detecting Neutrinos 
Part 3: Ephraim Fischbach / New Neutrino Detector 
Part 4: Chris Impey / Predicting Black Holes 

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