Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity And Essays on Magic |
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| Editor:
| Blackwell, Richard J.
de Lucca, Robert |
| Translator:
| Blackwell, Richard J.
de Lucca, Robert |
| Introduction by:
| Ingegno, Alfonso |
| Author:
| Bruno, Giordano |
| Contribution by:
| Ameriks, Karl
Clarke, Desmond M. |
| Series title: | Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59658-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $56.95 |
Book Description:
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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. 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 magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about...
More DescriptionGiordano 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, and of two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.