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Giordano Bruno
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A constellation of the most pedantic, obstinate ignorance and presumption, mixed with a kind of rustic incivility, which would try the patience of Job.
— Declaration about the scholars of England, particularly those of Oxford
Giordano Bruno
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
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Lived 1548–1600, aged 52Italy
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A Dominican friar who declared the universe infinite and imagined distant suns with their own planets harboring life — then refused to recant before the Inquisition and was burned at the stake in 1600.
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Born Filippo Bruno in February 1548 in Naples, he became a Dominican priest before his restless cosmological thinking pushed him toward heresy. He embraced the Copernican model and extended it radically: the stars were suns, surrounded by exoplanets that might hold life, and the universe had no center and no edge. His pantheism, his rejection of the Trinity and eternal damnation, and his belief in the reincarnation of the soul brought him before the Roman Inquisition. Charged with denying core Catholic doctrine, he was found guilty and burned in Rome's Campo de' Fiori on 17 February 1600. Cent…
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Giordano Bruno
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The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world.
— II, Singer, p 89
Giordano Bruno
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We find that everything that makes up difference and number is pure accident, pure show, pure constitution.
— V, Singer, p. 218
Giordano Bruno
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The Universe is one, infinite, immobile.
— As translated by Paul Harrison
Giordano Bruno
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Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties...
— Variant: Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species. differences, properties, everything that consists in generation, decay,
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