About Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno was born in Nola, near Naples, in 1548. He was an Italian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and oculist. His theories were in advance of modern science (Yates, 2014). The most noteworthy of Giordano's hypotheses, which contradict traditional geocentric astronomy and intuitively go beyond the sun-centered theory, which accounts of a finite cosmos with the sphere of fixed stars, are the infinite universe and multiplicity of the world.
Giordano was given the name Filippo at birth and changed it to Giordano when he enlisted in the Dominican monastery. He was consecrated as a priest in 1572 despite the fact that his unconventional views made him the subject of heresy suspicions (Yates, 2014). However, he was later sent to a Neapolitan convent. After completing his course, Giordano's generated annoyance towards theoretical subtleties, and he would discuss Arian heresy that denied the divinity of Christ. A trial n heresy against him was started, and he fled to Rome in 1576. Later in 1578, Giordano abandoned the Dominican order (Yates, 2014). While in Geneva, he embraced Calvinism but later abandoned it after realizing that the Reformed church was not different from Catholic.

In 1584, Giordano a member of Sydney circle invited him to discuss his theory of infinite universe. However, the discussion ended up in a quarrel (Bruno, Lucca & Blackwell, 1998). After the unsuccessful discussion, Giordano began writing his Italian dialogues which constituted his first systematic exposition of his philosophy. He wrote three cosmological dialogues and three on molarity. Conclusively, Giordano’s theory influenced modern philosophical and scientific thought (Bruno, Lucca & Blackwell, 1998). For instance, the cosmological theory explains some fundamental aspects of the contemporary perception of the universe. On the other hand, his ethical ideas are appealing to the modern humanistic activism while his ideals of philosophical and religion tolerance have influenced liberal thinkers.

References

Bruno, G., De Lucca, R., & Blackwell, R. J. (1998). Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic. Cambridge University Press.

Yates, F. A. (2014). Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad. Routledge.