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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.
The earliest depiction of Giordano Bruno, a supporter of cosmic pluralism, is an engraving published in 1715 in Germany, presumed based on a lost contemporary portrait. [ 1 ] Cosmic pluralism , the plurality of worlds , or simply pluralism , describes the belief in numerous " worlds " ( planets , dwarf planets or natural satellites ) in ...
Kepler said that the Moon has an atmosphere and intelligent inhabitants, even writing a science fiction story about them. Dominican philosopher Giordano Bruno accepted the existence of extraterrestrial life, which became one of the charges leveled against him at the Inquisition, leading to his execution. [24]
Giordano Bruno (1548 – 1600), (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus) born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings.
Naturalistic pantheism was expressed by various thinkers, [5] including Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for his views. [14] The 17th century Dutch philosopher Spinoza became particularly known for it. [5] In 1705, the Irish writer John Toland endorsed a form of pantheism in which the God-soul is identical with the material universe.
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition is a 1964 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book delves into the history of Hermeticism and its influence upon Renaissance philosophy and Giordano Bruno. With the publication of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Yates transformed Renaissance historiography.
De Umbris Idearum (Latin for On the Shadows of Ideas) is a book written in 1582 by Italian Dominican friar and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno.In this book, he proposes a system integrating mnemonics, Ficinian psychology, and hermetic magic.
Adi Shankara Giordano Bruno Baruch Spinoza John Toland Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller Claude Debussy Carl Gustav Jung Albert Einstein Michio Kaku Elon Musk. Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all ...