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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... Smitho , the cultured gentleman who represents in the dia- logue the open - minded if still rather cautious intelligence of the English metropolitan middle classes which Bruno clearly hoped to capture as his ideal audience.22 This ...
... Smitho claims that he has an objection to make . His perhaps overlong argument picks up an essential and telling point : in this process of teaching philosophical truth to new generations of pupils , who is going to be the master ? Smitho ...
... Smitho , whose knowledge is pure and whose guidance is sure : an implicit reference to the Pythagorean sects who referred in hushed devotion to their master as " he who knows . " 25 Such men , adds Theophilus , in what seems a curious ...
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Discovering Copernicus | 29 |
The Ash Wednesday Supper | 43 |
De immenso et innumerabilibus | 78 |
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