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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

Born in 1548 in Rome

He had doubts about the Dogma

of the Trinity

Defender of humanism,

current philosophy of the

Renaissance (whose main

representative was Erasmus)

He argued that the Universe is

infinite

Also advocates Pantheism *

He wrote “De

l’infinito universo e mondi”, in 1584. (“On

Infinite, Universe

and worlds”)

He questioned

the teaching

methods of his time.

His forename was Filippo, adopting the

name of Giordano when he

joined the Dominican

Order (at the convent of Naples in

1566). There he studied

Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. He

became Doctor in theology.

the universe

is infinite, populate

d by thousands of solar systems, linking many other

planets with

intelligent life.

Invited by the

venetian noble

Giovanni Mocenig

o in 1590

was trapped

and surrendered to the

Inquisition in 1592;

He advocated the

heliocentric system

The most controversial aspect of the

thought of Bruno is his Cosmology,

influenced by Nicholas of Cusa and

Copernicus, stating that

But it is likely that more important

that this, to the

Inquisition

Was his critical spirit, the refusal of the acceptance of dogmas and something in its time, disturbing:

Man was considered as having been created from the image of God;

Sustaining the possibility of numerous planets with intelligent life was strange, in that context.

He was sentenced by the Inquisition, and lived his last eight years under torture.

Nevertheless he did not change his ideas.

He was sentenced to death and executed in 1600, having been burned.

It is possible that what happened to Bruno contributed to a more cautious position taken by Galileo.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

Blackwell, Richard J.; de Lucca, Robert (1998). Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic by Giordano Bruno. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-59658-0.

Couliana, Ioan P. (1987). Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-12315-4

Gatti, Hilary (2002). Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science. Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8785-4.

Giuliano Montaldo, “Giordano Bruno”, film, 1973, 123 mins.