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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. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate issues as the role of Christ as mediator and the distinction, in human beings, between soul and matter. 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, and of two essays on…

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15 editions · 5 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2019
    De la Causa, Principio et Uno
    Independently published · 58 pages · 9781072653158
  • Other · English · 1998
    Cause, principle, and unity
    Cambridge University Press · 186 pages · 9780521593595
  • Other · English · 1976
    Cause, principle, and unity
    Greenwood Press · 177 pages · 9780837190402
  • Paperback · Spanish · 2018
    De la causa, el principio y el uno
    Tecnos · 408 pages · 9788430974146
  • Other · Italian · 2022
    De la Causa, Principio et Uno
    Independently Published · 9798406044988
  • Other · French · 1996
    De la cause, du principe et de l'un
    Les belles lettres · 387 pages · 9782251334479
MetaphysicsPhilosophiePrincipe (Philosophie)Early works to 1800InquisitionMagicMedieval PhilosophyBruno, giordano, 1548-1600