Giordano Bruno and Renaissance ScienceCornell University Press, 1999 - 257 páginas The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's contribution to the scientific revolution, in the process challenging the view that now dominates Bruno criticism among English-language scholars. This argument, associated with the work of Frances Yates, holds that early modern science was impregnated with and shaped by Hermetic and occult traditions, and has led scholars to view Bruno primarily as a magus. Gatti reinstates Bruno as a scientific thinker and occasional investigator of considerable significance and power whose work participates in the excitement aroused by the new science and its methods at the end of the sixteenth century. Her original research emphasizes the importance of Bruno's links to the magnetic philosophers, from Ficino to Gilbert; Bruno's reading and extension of Copernicus's work on the motions of the earth; the importance of Bruno's mathematics; and his work on the art of memory seen as a picture logic, which she examines in the light of the crises of visualization in present-day science. She concludes by emphasizing Bruno's ethics of scientific discovery. |
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... Palingenius , author of the Zodiacus vitae pub- lished in Venice in 1531.23 Palingenius's complex and often ambiguous text claimed for itself a Catholic orthodoxy that was belied by frequent strong attacks on the monastic culture of the ...
... Palingenius in the last book of the De immenso : Palin- genius , it must be remembered , is praised as the thinker who had got clos- est to a correct idea of an infinite universe , but not , in Bruno's opinion , close enough ...
... Palingenius aside and , in the final pages of the De immenso , celebrated his own idea of an entirely homogeneous , infinite universe , filled throughout with one constantly moving and modifying substance . Recent criticism , as well as ...
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Discovering Copernicus | 29 |
The Ash Wednesday Supper | 43 |
De immenso et innumerabilibus | 78 |
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