Giordano Bruno · Philosophy
In <em>The Ash Wednesday Supper</em>, Bruno seized on Copernicus’s moving Earth not as a clever calculating device but as a liberation of the mind - and pushed heliocentrism far past anything Copernicus intended, into an infinite, sun-scattered cosmos.
You learned that Bruno embraced Copernican heliocentrism as physically real and mind-liberating, called Copernicus the ‘dawn’ before the true sunrise, but faulted him for being ‘more a mathematician than a natural philosopher’ and pushed past him to an infinite universe with no centre at all. E…
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