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Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was an Italian heterodox philosopher and theologian. Because of his ideas and writings, Giordano Bruno left Naples, his home town, in 1576. In 1583, he abandoned his life as a Dominican friar and left Italy, living thereafter in France, England, and Germany.

As a supporter of Copernicus’s heliocentric theory, of which he became a staunch supporter, Giordano Bruno collected countless enemies because of his unorthodox ideas. In his book De l’Infinito, Universo e Mondi(1584), he argued that the universe was infinite, that it contained an infinite number of worlds, and that these are all inhabited by intelligent beings. He came to Venice in 1591, where he got arrested and tried by the Inquisition in 1592. After he recanted, Bruno was sent to Rome the same year, for another trial. After eight years of successive interrogations, he was declared a heretic. In 1600, Bruno was burned at the inquisitorial stake because of his opinions concerning the Trinity,...

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    Fernando B. Figueiredo

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    William M. Irvine

  3. Centro Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

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  4. Analytical-, Environm., Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB, Brussels, Belgium

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Figueiredo, F.B. (2022). Bruno, Giordano. In: Gargaud, M., et al. Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4_5253-5

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