Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

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.

The transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was marked by Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome. 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. Additionally, the volume includes two essays on magic, in which Bruno interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

In Cause, Principle and Unity, Giordano Bruno challenges the Aristotelian accounts of causality and presents a new theory of an infinite universe based on the implications of Copernicanism. This volume also includes two essays on magic, in which Bruno interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena. These works were produced during the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, which was marked by Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600 at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome.

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 two of his works: Cause, Principle and Unity, and two essays on magic. In Cause, Principle and Unity, Bruno challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and presents a new theory of an infinite universe based on the implications of Copernicanism. The two essays on magic interpret earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

The transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was marked by Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome. This volume presents new translations of two of his works: 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 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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