Product Description: Giordano Bruno was an itinerant Italian friar who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresies, that included his rejection of the Ptolemaic cosmology. Like Galileo, who met a similar fate for similar reasons later in the century, Bruno has been accorded martyrdom to the cause of scientific truth and regarded as a visionary whose ideas were out of joint with the superstitions of his time...read more

Product Description: "Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600...read more

Product Description: first full tr/Bruno's last visionary work (1591)

Product Description: Offers new translations of Bruno's 'Cause, Principle and Unity' in which he challenges the Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe. Also includes two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events...read more

Product Description: Giordano Bruno was an itinerant Italian friar who was burned at the stake in 1600 for heresies, that included his rejection of the Ptolemaic cosmology. Like Galileo, who met a similar fate for similar reasons later in the century, Bruno has been accorded martyrdom to the cause of scientific truth and regarded as a visionary whose ideas were out of joint with the superstitions of his time...read more