The Pope and the Heretic: the True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition - Michael White - Bücher - Harper Perennial - 9780060933883 - 21. Oktober 2003
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The Pope and the Heretic: the True Story of Giordano Bruno, the Man Who Dared to Defy the Roman Inquisition Reprint edition

Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican "regrets" the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy.

But Bruno's philosophy spread: Galileo, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, and Gottfried Leibniz all built upon his ideas; his thought experiments predate the work of such twentieth-century luminaries as Karl Popper; his religious thinking inspired such radicals as Baruch Spinoza; and his work on the art of memory had a profound effect on William Shakespeare.

Chronicling a genius whose musings helped bring about the modern world, Michael White pieces together the final years -- the capture, trial, and the threat the Catholic Church felt -- that made Bruno a martyr of free thought.

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 21. Oktober 2003
ISBN13 9780060933883
Verlag Harper Perennial
Seitenanzahl 256
Maße 137 × 204 × 17 mm   ·   226 g
Sprache Englisch  

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