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Giordano Bruno (/ dʒ ɔːr ˈ d ɑː n oʊ ˈ b r uː n oʊ /; Italian: [dʒorˈdaːno ˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.
Completion of Tycho Brahe's subterranean observatory at Stjerneborg.; Giordano Bruno, in England, publishes his "Italian Dialogues", including the cosmological tracts La Cena de le Ceneri ("The Ash Wednesday Supper"), De la Causa, Principio et Uno ("On Cause, Principle and Unity") and De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi ("On the Infinite Universe and Worlds").
Giordano Bruno introduced in his works the idea of multiple worlds instantiating the infinite possibilities of a pristine, indivisible One. Bruno (from the mouth of his character Philotheo) in his De l'infinito universo et mondi (1584) claims that "innumerable celestial bodies, stars, globes, suns and earths may be sensibly perceived therein by ...
1584 – Giordano Bruno proposes a non-hierarchical cosmology, wherein the Copernican Solar System is not the center of the universe, but rather, a relatively insignificant star system, amongst an infinite multitude of others.
Giordano Bruno – La Cena de le Ceneri (Ash Wednesday Supper) [3] John Dee – 48 Claves angelicae (48 Angelic Keys, written in Kraków) [4] James VI of Scotland – Some Reulis and Cautelis to be observit and eschewit in Scottis poesie; David Powel – The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales (first printed history of Wales) [5]
Frances Yates argued that it should be considered as "over-lapping" with the debate of Bruno with the Aristotelians at Oxford, also in 1584. [10] Perkins represented the Puritan view of mnemonic techniques based on images, which considered them tainted with idolatry, heresy, Catholicism and obscenity. [ 11 ]
A precursor to it could be seen in Giordano Bruno's 1584 book On the Infinite Universe and Worlds . [citation needed] It is an early exposition of cosmic pluralism, the idea that the stars are distant suns which might have their own planetary systems, including the possibility of extraterrestrial life. [citation needed]
While the emerging field of Big History in its present state is generally seen as having emerged in the past two decades beginning around 1990, there have been numerous precedents going back to the 1500s with Giordano Bruno's works, especially Lo spaccio della besta trionfante (1584)(The Return of the Triumphant Beast). In this work, Bruno ...