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1582
On the Shadows of the Ideas
"On the Shadows of the Ideas" is the earliest dated work from Giordana Bruno and begins the development of his "new philosphy" in which he incorporates the beliefs of heliocentricism. It is ill-detailed. -
The Ash Wednesday Supper
"The Ash Wednesday Supper" is Bruno's first detailed and published work. Bruno covers his interpretation of Copernicus's heliocentric hypthesis of "On the Revolutions" of 1543. "In the first place, it disproved Aristotle’s doctrine that each sublunary element had a fixed “natural place” at the center of the cosmos—the earth’s globe at the very center, water in the sphere immediately surrounding it, followed by the air and fire spheres—and that particles of the elements." -
On the Cause, the Principle and the One
"When introducing his account of the Universal Soul and Universal Matter, he included the Stoics among the several schools and authors who had identified the World Soul and matter as the active and passive principles of the physical world. Stoic philosophy also contributed to Bruno’s doctrine in surreptitious ways." -
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; The Story of Giordano Bruno
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Bibliography
Knox, Dilwyn, "Giordano Bruno", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/bruno/. -
Contribution to the Philosophy of Science
Bruno's theories contributed largely to the world of science and questioned many philosophers that came before him. His view on our position in the solar system alone questioned almost everyone that came before him.
