Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521596589)

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.

Author: Giordano Bruno
ISBN-10: 0521596580
ISBN-13: 9780521596589
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/1998
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.24w x 0.59d