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Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic

By Giordano Bruno , Richard J. Blackwell , Robert de Lucca , Alfonso Ingegno

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780521593595, 052159359X, 0521596580, 9780521596589, 9780511005572
LCC
B783.A4 E5 1998
Open Library ID
OL355709M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
907 kB (928682 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Pages
224\224
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-01-24 12:34:20

Description

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.

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