Filippo Bruno

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Filippo Bruno, better known as Giordano Bruno, was a 16th-century Italian philosopher, cosmologist, and Dominican friar whose advocacy of an infinite universe and challenge to Church doctrine led to his execution for heresy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dominican friar
Italian person
Renaissance philosopher
human
philosopher
alsoKnownAs Giordano Bruno NERFINISHED
birthName Filippo Bruno NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath execution for heresy
citizenship Italy
Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED
convictedBy Roman Inquisition NERFINISHED
convictedOf heresy
countryOfBirth Italy
Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1548
dateOfDeath 1600-02-17
educatedAt Dominican convent of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples NERFINISHED
era Early modern period
executionLocation Campo de' Fiori, Rome NERFINISHED
familyName Bruno NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork cosmology
metaphysics
mnemonics
philosophy
theology
givenName Filippo NERFINISHED
influenced Baruch Spinoza NERFINISHED
German idealism NERFINISHED
free thought movement
modern cosmology
influencedBy Hermetic tradition
Lucretius NERFINISHED
Neoplatonism NERFINISHED
Nicolaus Copernicus NERFINISHED
Plato
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
mannerOfDeath execution by burning at the stake
memberOf Order of Preachers NERFINISHED
Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED
movement Hermeticism
Neoplatonism NERFINISHED
Renaissance philosophy NERFINISHED
notableFor advocacy of an infinite universe
challenge to Catholic Church doctrine
defense of the plurality of inhabited worlds
martyrdom for ideas considered heretical
notableIdea cosmic infinity
critique of Aristotelian cosmology
heliocentric cosmology extended to infinite space
immanence of God in nature
infinite universe
pantheistic tendencies
plurality of worlds
rejection of geocentrism
notableWork De l'infinito, universo e mondi NERFINISHED
De la causa, principio et uno NERFINISHED
De magia NERFINISHED
De umbris idearum NERFINISHED
La cena de le ceneri NERFINISHED
Spaccio de la bestia trionfante NERFINISHED
occupations Dominican friar
cosmologist
philosopher
poet
theologian
writer
period 16th century
philosophicalSchool Neoplatonism NERFINISHED
Renaissance Hermeticism NERFINISHED
natural philosophy
placeOfBirth Nola NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Rome
placeOfImprisonment Rome NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholicism
religiousName Giordano NERFINISHED
trialHeldBy Roman Inquisition NERFINISHED
viewOnAristotle rejected Aristotelian physics and cosmology
viewOnCopernicanSystem extended Copernican heliocentrism to an infinite universe
viewOnCosmology the stars are suns with their own planetary systems
viewOnTheology God is immanent in the universe
viewOnUniverse the universe is infinite and contains innumerable worlds

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Giordano Bruno birthName Filippo Bruno
Giordano Bruno givenName Filippo Bruno
this entity surface form: Filippo