Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic

by Giordano Bruno , Edited by Richard J. Blackwell , Robert de Lucca , Introduction by Alfonso Ingegno

• ISBN13: 9780521593595
• ISBN10: 052159359X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume presents new translations of Cause, Principle and Unity, in which he challenges Aristotelian accounts of causality and spells out the implications of Copernicanism for a new theory of an infinite universe, as well as two essays on magic, in which he interprets earlier theories about magical events in the light of the unusual powers of natural phenomena.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(23)
Chronology	xxx	(4)
Further reading	xxxiv	(2)
Note on the texts	xxxvi
Cause, principle and unity	1	(102)
On magic	103	(40)
A general account of bonding	143	(34)
Index	177