12. Bruno’s Natural Philosophy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. INTRODUCTION: Beginning as Negation in the Italian Dialogues of Giordano Bruno 1
6. PART 1. BRUNO AND THE NEW SCIENCE
7. 1. Between Magic and Magnetism: Bruno’s Cosmology at Oxford 17
8. 2. Bruno’s Copernican Diagrams 40
9. 3. Bruno and the New Atomism 70
10. 4. The Multiple Languages of the New Science 91
11. PART 2. BRUNO IN BRITAIN
12. 5. Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno 115
13. 6. The Sense of an Ending in Bruno’s Heroici furori 127
14. 7. Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet 140
15. 8. Bruno’s Candelaio and Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist 161
16. 9. Bruno and the Stuart Court Masques 172
17. 10. Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 201
18. 11. Bruno and the Victorians 220
19. PART 3. BRUNO’S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
20. 12. Bruno’s Natural Philosophy 249
21. 13. Bruno’s Use of the Bible in His Italian Philosophical Dialogues 264
22. 14. Science and Magic: The Resolution of Contraries 280
23. 15. Bruno and Metaphor 297
24. EPILOGUE: Why Bruno’s “A Tranquil Universal Philosophy” Finished in a Fire 309
25. Bibliography of Cited Works by and on Giordano Bruno 325
26. Index 335