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He said the universe is infinite, filled with infinite worlds, and not centered on anything. Rome burned him for it.
God and Nature are the same thing. He was excommunicated for saying it, ground lenses to earn a living, and published his masterwork after he died.
Connection
Giordano Bruno God identified with nature Spinoza — Bruno's insistence that the divine is not outside the world but is the world's own infinite life anticipates the position Spinoza would argue for more rigorously a century later.
Ideas
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“Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it.”
“There is a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void: in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow.”
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
Key Moments
1548 CE
Born in Nola, near Naples
1576 CE
Flight across Europe
1584 CE
The London dialogues
1600 CE
The stake at Campo de' Fiori
1632 CE
Born in Amsterdam
1656 CE
Excommunicated from the Jewish Community
c. 1660 CE
Grinding Lenses
1677 CE
Ethics Published Posthumously
Works
On the Infinite, the Universe and Worlds
Ethics