Multicolored lights that exhibit small movements and have been sighted since 1913 near Morganton, North Carolina. They are a long-established example of the phenomenon of ghost lights. The U.S. Geological Survey determined that the lights could be from distant car or locomotive headlights and\/or brushfires. Another investigation in the 1970s by the Oak Ridge Isochronous Observation Network concluded that some not all of the lights might be refractions from locations beyond Brown Mountain.<\/p>\n
A cosmological system of thought, based on the magical and animistic ideas of 16th-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno. At a young age, Bruno entered the Dominican order in Naples. He was eventually accused of heresy and fled in 1576, traveling throughout Europe for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n
Heavily influenced by Agrippa\u2019s textbook of Renaissance magic, De Occulta Philosophia, Bruno\u2019s teachings are full of magical images, incantations, and other occult procedures. Bruno envisaged a universe of infinite space and innumerable inhabited worlds, overseen not by a single god but by the \u201cGod in things,\u201d with a \u201cprofound magic\u201d or psychic life of nature as the principle of movement. Although \u201cagainst\u201d mathematics, Bruno defended Copernican theory against popular sentiment on animistic and magical grounds. Describing Copernicus as \u201conly a mathematician\u201d who had little understanding of his own scientific discoveries, Bruno saw Copernican heliocentricity as confirmation of a return to an \u201cEgyptian\u201d philosophy of universal animation.<\/p>\n
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