Giordano Bruno And Renaissance Science

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0801487854

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Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti Pdf

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.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351933643

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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance by Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition. His life took him from Italy to Northern Europe and England, and finally to Venice, where he was arrested. His six dialogues in Italian, which today are considered a turning point towards the philosophy and science of the modern world, were written during his visit to Elizabethan London, as a gentleman attendant to the French Ambassador, Michel de Castelnau. He died refusing to recant views which he defined as philosophical rather than theological, and for which he claimed liberty of expression. The papers in this volume derive from a conference held in London to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Bruno's death. A number focus specifically on his experience in England, while others look at the Italian context of his thought and his impact upon others. Together they constitute a major new survey of the range of Bruno's philosophical activity, as well as evaluating his use of earlier cultural traditions and his influence on both contemporary and more modern themes and trends.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136182990

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The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge by Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's influence on English figures as different as the ninth Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Originally published in 1989, it is of interest to students and teachers of history of ideas, cultural history, European drama and renaissance England. Bruno's work had particular power and emphasis in the modern world due to his response to the cultural crisis which had developed - his impulse towards a new ‘faculty of knowing’ had a disruptive effect on existing orthodoxies – religious, scientific, philosophical, and political.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400836932

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Essays on Giordano Bruno by Hilary Gatti Pdf

This book gathers wide-ranging essays on the Italian Renaissance philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno by one of the world's leading authorities on his work and life. Many of these essays were originally written in Italian and appear here in English for the first time. Bruno (1548-1600) is principally famous as a proponent of heliocentrism, the infinity of the universe, and the plurality of worlds. But his work spanned the sciences and humanities, sometimes touching the borders of the occult, and Hilary Gatti's essays richly reflect this diversity. The book is divided into sections that address three broad subjects: the relationship between Bruno and the new science, the history of his reception in English culture, and the principal characteristics of his natural philosophy. A final essay examines why this advocate of a "tranquil universal philosophy" ended up being burned at the stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition. While the essays take many different approaches, they are united by a number of assumptions: that, although well versed in magic, Bruno cannot be defined primarily as a Renaissance Magus; that his aim was to articulate a new philosophy of nature; and that his thought, while based on ancient and medieval sources, represented a radical rupture with the philosophical schools of the past, helping forge a path toward a new modernity.

Author : Giordano Bruno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521596580

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Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity by Giordano Bruno Pdf

Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, as well as two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

Author : Giordano Bruno
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052159359X

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Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity by Giordano Bruno Pdf

Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, as well as two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

Author : Alberto A. Martinez
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780239408

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Burned Alive by Alberto A. Martinez Pdf

In 1600, the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno for heresy, and he was then burned alive in the Campo de’ Fiori in Rome. Historians, scientists, and philosophical scholars have traditionally held that Bruno’s theological beliefs led to his execution, denying any link between his study of the nature of the universe and his trial. But in Burned Alive, Alberto A. Martínez draws on new evidence to claim that Bruno’s cosmological beliefs—that the stars are suns surrounded by planetary worlds like our own, and that the Earth moves because it has a soul—were indeed the primary factor in his condemnation. Linking Bruno’s trial to later confrontations between the Inquisition and Galileo in 1616 and 1633, Martínez shows how some of the same Inquisitors who judged Bruno challenged Galileo. In particular, one clergyman who authored the most critical reports used by the Inquisition to condemn Galileo in 1633 immediately thereafter wrote an unpublished manuscript in which he denounced Galileo and other followers of Copernicus for their beliefs about the universe: that many worlds exist and that the Earth moves because it has a soul. Challenging the accepted history of astronomy to reveal Bruno as a true innovator whose contributions to the science predate those of Galileo, this book shows that is was cosmology, not theology, that led Bruno to his death.

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466895843

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Giordano Bruno by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the "magic Prague" of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth—and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno's wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. An incisive, independent thinker just when natural philosophy was transformed into modern science, he was also a writer of sublime talent. His eloquence and his courage inspired thinkers across Europe, finding expression in the work of Shakespeare and Galileo. Giordano Bruno allows us to encounter a legendary European figure as if for the first time.

Author : Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041166039

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The Renaissance Philosophy of Giordano Bruno by Irving Louis Horowitz Pdf

Author : Giordano Bruno,Hilary Gatti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487521400

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The Ash Wednesday Supper by Giordano Bruno,Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems.

Author : Frances Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136864124

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates Pdf

Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way for a revaluation of the esoteric influences at play during the onset of the modern era. Today, when traditional answers about the universe and our place within it are under increasing scrutiny, Giordono Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition proves itself a true classic for our time.

Author : William R. Shea,Mariano Artigas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195165982

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Galileo in Rome by William R. Shea,Mariano Artigas Pdf

Two leading authorities on Galileo offer a brilliant revisionist look at the career of the great Italian scientist.

Author : Hilary Gatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136183003

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The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge by Hilary Gatti Pdf

Giordano Bruno’s visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama. This book explores Bruno's influence on English figures as different as the ninth Earl of Northumberland, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Originally published in 1989, it is of interest to students and teachers of history of ideas, cultural history, European drama and renaissance England. Bruno's work had particular power and emphasis in the modern world due to his response to the cultural crisis which had developed - his impulse towards a new ‘faculty of knowing’ had a disruptive effect on existing orthodoxies – religious, scientific, philosophical, and political.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780192856418

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Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy by Peter Adamson Pdf

Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th century, then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the era of Machiavelli and Galileo.

Author : Charles Southward Singleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129696394

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Art, Science, and History in the Renaissance by Charles Southward Singleton Pdf