Giordano Bruno - William Boulting - Bog

This comprehensive book outlines the life and works of an important revolutionary intellectual of the 16th Century. This book follows BrunoΓÇÖs 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 is most remembered for - his place in the history of the relationship between science and faith.