Giordano Bruno : his life, thought, and martyrdom / William Boulting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boulting, William, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Alchemy.

Routledge library editions. Alchemy ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600.

Bruno, Giordano.

Philosophers--Italy--Biography.

Philosophers.

Christian heretics--Italy--Biography.

Christian heretics.

Christian martyrs--Italy--Biography.

Christian martyrs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows Bruno's life and the development of his thought in the order in which he declared it. Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. He was burned at the stake after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy but his modern scientific thought and cosmology became very influential. His writings on science also showed interest in magic and alchemy and those are outlined in this book alongside what he i

Contents:

Cover; GIORDANO BRUNO: His Life, Thought, and Martyrdom; Copyright; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I BIRTH AND PARENTAGE-BOYHOOD; CHAPTER II MONASTIC LIFE AT NAPLES; CHAPTER III DISCIPLINE OF BOOKS; I. CLASSICS, ARISTOTLE, THE SCHOOLMEN ETC; II. THE NEO-PLATONISTS; III. RAYMOND LULLY; IV. CUSANUS; V. COPERNICUS AND LATER THINKERS; CHAPTER IV WANDERINGS THROUGH ITALY. NAPLES TO GENEVA; CHAPTER V AT GENEVA, LYONS AND TOULOUSE; CHAPTER VI FIRST STAY IN PARIS; CHAPTER VII THE EARLY WORKS; I. THE SHADOWS OF IDEAS; II. THE INCANTATION OF CIRCE; III. THE LULLIAN ARCHITECTURE; IV. THE CHANDLER

CHAPTER VIII AT OXFORDCHAPTER IX IN LONDON; CHAPTER X IMPRESSIONS OF ELIZABETH'S ENGLAND; CHAPTER XI WORKS PRINTED IN LONDON; I THE THIRTY SEALS AND SEAL OF SEALS; II THE ASH WEDNESDAY SUPPER; III ON CAUSE, PRINCIPLE, AND THE ONE; IV THE INFINITE UNIVERSE AND ITS WORLDS; V THE EXPULSION OF THE TRIUMPHANT BEAST PROPOSED By JOVE, EFFECTED By THE COUNCIL, REVEALED By MERCURY, RELATED By SOPHIA, HEARD By SAULINO, AND SET DOWN By THE NOLAN j DIVIDED INTO THREE DIALOGUES, EACH OF THREE PARTS; VI THE CABALA OF THE STEED LIKE UNTO PEGASUS, WITH THE ADDITION OF THE Ass OF CYLLENE

VII THE TRANSPORTS OF INTREPID SOULSCHAPTER XII IN PARIS AGAIN. SOME NEW WORKS; CHAPTER XIII AT WITTENBERG. WORKS PRINTED OR WRITTEN THERE; CHAPTER XIV AT PRAGUE AND HELMSTEDT. THE WORKS OF 1588-90; CHAPTER XV AT FRANKFURT AND ZURICH; CHAPTER XVI THE GREAT LATIN POEM AND LAST BOOKS; I. THE THREEFOLD LEAST; II. THE UNIT; III. ON IMMENSITY; IV. ON IMAGES, SIGNS AND IDEAS; V. A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON; VI. THE FASTENINGS OF KIND; CHAPTER XVII AT VENICE AND PADUA; CHAPTER XVIII THE TRIAL; CHAPTER XIX BRUNO AND THE INQUISITORS. THE REPUBLIC AND THE POPE; CHAPTER XX THE ROMAN PRISON. FINAL SCENES

INDEX

Notes:

First published in 1914 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-08313-X

1-299-16087-5

1-136-18314-0

9780203083130

OCLC:

829461193