Giordano Bruno

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.