Astronomical prodigy has changed the whole perception of the universe

Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) was an Italian monk, an Italian philosopher, an Italian mathematician and astronomer. He is famous for following the trend against religious dominance and assuming that natural phenomena originate from materialism. He was also one of the first scientists to assert that the universe was immeasurable and therefore no celestial body in the "center".

Bruno was born in Nola, near Naples, and he entered the Dominican monastery and studied philosophy and astronomy from a very young age. Very quickly he became famous for radical ideas, For Bruno, this world is a physical world, endless and permanent. The solar system is just one of the numerous systems of the universe. The earth is just a dust in the vast universe. Thus, the world of the Italian philosopher is a universe with no stops. It surpassed Copernicus's world because this great astronomer thought the world had its own limits. Not only that, Bruno goes further when he thinks that not only Earth but also the sun has its own movement and the atmosphere rotates with the Earth.

Giordano Bruno.

It is important to know that by the 18th century, basically people believed that the Earth was orbiting the Sun. That is, the idea of ​​moving earth has also been skeptical for a long time. If the Earth's motion is suspected, then who thinks about whether the Sun and the atmosphere are moving? Not only does he affirm that the Earth is not the center of the universe, Bruno also offers shocking and allegedly sinful information like Christ is only a magician without any miracles, or he denies abandon the birth of the Virgin Mary. Unfortunately, these views of his are contrary to the teachings of Christianity that dominate Europe at the time. Giordano Bruno accused of opposing the church and was declared heretical by the Church of Copernicus. In order to keep his life, he had fled Italy and spent days in France, England and Germany, living by teaching art and philosophy, and still continuing to love astronomy. learn.

Bruno returned to Italy in 1591, was arrested in Venice, and then sent to Rome, where he was imprisoned for heresy and interrogated for seven years. He refused to comment on his views despite being brutally tortured and sentenced to death under the pyre. Giantano Bruno, burned to death in Rome on February 17, 1600. His book was also banned from circulation and burned, his name was also concealed. Several generations later, few people heard of him and no memorial remembered him.

The sculpture depicts the execution of Giordano Bruno.

Then, in 1884, the Italian liberal artist, condemned the Pope and placed a bronze statue of Bruno by author Ettore Ferrari, a famous sculptor. The statue was built and inaugurated in 1889 in Campo dei Fiore square, in Rome, where Bruno himself was executed in 1600. Beneath the statue, Ferrari has several bronze boards, depicting the Bruno's life, including his image when executed by the Inquisition court.

Giordano Bruno statue in Campo dei Fiore square, Rome.

It was not until the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that Bruno became famous, especially for scientists, who regarded him as a mirror of sacrifice for science even though scholars emphasized that viewpoint Most astronomy is just a small factor in Bruno's theological and philosophical beliefs leading to the trial. In general, Bruno's theory of philosophy inherits the ideas of Democritus, Epicurus, Heraclitus, . It is the product of Renaissance materialism and the continuation, development of what is left in new condition.

Despite the limitations, Bruno showed many reasonable points in the study of epistemology. Basically, his epistemology is materialistic.