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Giordano Bruno   /dʒɔrdˈɑnoʊ brˈunoʊ/   Listen
Giordano Bruno

noun
1.
Italian philosopher who used Copernican principles to develop a pantheistic monistic philosophy; condemned for heresy by the Inquisition and burned at the stake (1548-1600).  Synonym: Bruno.





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... Giordano Bruno, was one of the earliest converts to the new astronomy. Taking Lucretius as his exemplar, he revived the notion of the infinity of worlds; and, combining with it the doctrine of Copernicus, reached the sublime generalisation that the fixed stars are suns, scattered numberless ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall


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