THE COSMOLOGY OF GIORDANO BRUNO
Book Details + Condition: Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY). First English Edition, 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket. By Paul Henri Michel. 306 pages. Bruno's cosmology distinguishes between "suns" which produce their own light and heat, and have other bodies moving around them; and "earths" which move around suns and receive light and heat from them. Bruno suggested that some, if not all, of the objects classically known as fixed stars are in fact suns. Chapters include:
- The Universe As a Subject of Enquiry
- Cosmogony
- Soul of the Universe
- Matter
- Infinite Universe
- Solar System
- Countless Universes
- Time and Eternity
- And more.
In very good condition, with firm binding; clean interior; light shelf wear to jacket.
