Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic

by Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Robert de Lucca, Alfonso Ingegno

Overview

Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, as well as two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521596589
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/26/1998
Series:	Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	227,930
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Cause, principle and unity; On magic; A general account of bonding.