Giordano Bruno

Philosopher and Astronomer

Born: 1548 in Nola, Italy

Summerland: Feb. 1600, burned at the stake by the Catholic Church, Rome

"Perhaps you who pronounce my sentence

are in greater fear than I who receive it".

In the center of the Campo de Fiori (Rome) is a statue of Giordano Bruno, philosopher. Bruno held that God was present in nature and that the universe was infinite. The Catholic Church burned him at the stake in 1600, right where his statue is today.

Bruno's works were later used by Galileo and other astrologers and philosophers. Galileo had backed down from the Catholic Church during the time of the inquisition, where Bruno did not. Bruno's facts and theories are still being used today by modern science; however he is rarely recognized for his contribution to the universal science that man works with today.

 "This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is not absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of all things."

~ Giordano Bruno, On Cause, Principle and Unity.  

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