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 pr...

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1. Verfasser:	Gatti, Hilary (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ithaca [u.a.] Cornell Univ. Press 1999
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Bruno, Giordano <1548-1600> Bruno, Giordano > 1548-1600 Hermetisme Wetenschapsdynamica Science, Renaissance Naturwissenschaften Astronomie
Zusammenfassung:	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. 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.
Beschreibung:	X, 257 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0801435293