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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... reading seems to me mistaken . Although it is clear that Bruno is refusing to play the role of faithful disciple and is not offering a conventional reading of Copernicus's astronomy , there seems no reason to deduce from his effort to ...
... reader not with a series of technical footnotes to the De revolutionibus but with an original , philosophical reading and critique . He immediately distinguishes that reading from the prevalent interpretation of his period ...
... reading both of his life story and of his works . I have tried to show in this book how Bruno's infinite cosmology led in- evitably to an ontology that precluded identifying his epistemology with that of the renaissance magi . From ...
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Discovering Copernicus | 29 |
The Ash Wednesday Supper | 43 |
De immenso et innumerabilibus | 78 |
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