Tuesday 18 February 2014

Bruno's Infinite Universe, 1583

quick facts:

  1. Bruno was born 1548 in Nola in the Kingdom of Naples, in modern-day Italy.
  2. The universe was believed to be a finite sphere by ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle.
  3. Bruno believed Copernicus's heliocentric model and felt that the universe was infinite because God is infinite.
  4. Bruno was burned at the stake when the Roman Inquisition declared him guilty of heresy for his pantheism.

PHOTOS

A portrait of Giordano Bruno.
A reference map of the Universe.
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