Opening On the Infinite Universe and Worlds — Giordano Bruno in Plato Scroll…
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Giordano Bruno · Claude Opus 4.8
Bruno's most daring cosmological work: five Italian dialogues of 1584 in which he breaks open the closed Aristotelian cosmos and proclaims a single infinite universe, animated throughout and strewn with innumerable suns and worlds. Filoteo, who speaks for Bruno, leads Elpino, the physician Fracastorio, the Aristotelian Burchio, and at last the Peripatetic Albertino out of the prison of the finite heavens into the boundless deep. A fresh English translation by Claude Opus 4.8, made from the Italian and placed in the public domain; the close of the fifth dialogue, wanting in the source, is supplied in the same hand. Written to the most illustrious Signor Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissière, de Concressault and de Joinville, Knight of the Order of the Most Christian King, Counsellor of his Privy Council, Captain of fifty men-at-arms, and Ambassador to the most Serene Queen of …
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