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Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science (Paperback)
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The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter
of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its
development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth
century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's contribution to the
scientific revolution, in the process challenging the view that now
dominates Bruno criticism among English-language scholars. This
argument, associated with the work of Frances Yates, holds that
early modern science was impregnated with and shaped by Hermetic
and occult traditions, and has led scholars to view Bruno primarily
as a magus. Gatti reinstates Bruno as a scientific thinker and
occasional investigator of considerable significance and power
whose work participates in the excitement aroused by the new
science and its methods at the end of the sixteenth century. Her
original research emphasizes the importance of Bruno's links to the
magnetic philosophers, from Ficino to Gilbert; Bruno's reading and
extension of Copernicus's work on the motions of the earth; the
importance of Bruno's mathematics; and his work on the art of
memory seen as a picture logic, which she examines in the light of
the crises of visualization in present-day science. She concludes
by emphasizing Bruno's ethics of scientific discovery.
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