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Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian philosopher, cosmologist, and Dominican friar whose radical ideas helped shape the transition from medieval to modern thought. His major works, including On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1584) and The Ash Wednesday Supper (1584), advanced the notion of an infinite, homogeneous universe devoid of a center, presaging later cosmological developments. Bruno’s synthesis of Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and Copernican heliocentrism, along with his advocacy for intellectual freedom and pantheistic conceptions of divinity, led to his condemnation by the Roman Inquisition and execution by burning at the stake.

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