2019/09/01 by Max E. Valentinuzzi · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #History and Developments in Astronomy
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/mpuls.2019.2937244
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Giordano Bruno, orIordanus Brunus Nolanus (1548–1600), was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist, born in the Kingdom of Naples. He extended the then novel Copernican model and proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own. Besides, Bruno also underlined that the universe is infinite and could have no celestial body at its center. Revolutionary ideas shaking the base of the Catholic Church contentions; the response took some time, but was mercilessly cruel.