INDEX 



ABSOLUTE, first principle or, 166 



Agrippa of Nettesheim, Cornelius, 148, 

 149 j De occulta philosophia, 131, 149 ; 

 De Vanitate Scientiarum, 149, 257 



Alasco, Prince, of Poland, 23 



Algerio, Pomponio, 4 



Alsted, John Henry, Arttficium perorandi, 

 114 



Anaxagoras, 126 



Animism, 305 ; universal, 147 



Antidicsonus, 36, 324 



Aquinas, St. Thomas, 9, 80, 137 



Areopagus, literary society, 27 



Aretino, Pietro, Cortegiana of, 19 



Arian heresy, the, 357 



Aristotle, De Anima, 16, 158, 159; criticism 

 of, 50, 123 ; Organon, 53, 55 ; Topics, 55 ; 

 Metaphysics, 113, 125 ; Rhetoric, 114, 138 ; 

 Physics, 115, 116, 122, 125, 2365 De 

 generatione et corruptione, 1165 Meteor o- 

 logica, 116; Bruno's acquaintance with, 

 121-235 rejection of mathematical 

 method, 123 } treatment of predecessors, 

 124 j Logic, 138 j theory of limitation 

 of space, 183 ; on finitude of world, 185, 

 1 86 ; on plurality of worlds, 197 



Asinity, 257 



Aspiration, 291 



Atom, the, 236 j knowledge implies the, 

 227 j spherical, 240 j and materialism, 

 249 



Atomism, belief of Bruno and Cusanus in, 

 147 ; a metaphysical doctrine, 227, 246 ; 

 mathematical, 245 5 physical, 2475 critical, 

 247 j and mathematics, 331 



Avarice, 272 



Avenarius, 337 



Averroes, 136, 305 



Avicebron or Avencebrol, Fons Vitae, 135 



Bacon, Francis, 33, 123, 139, 325-295 

 Novum Organum, 123, 124, 327 - 32 j 

 Historia Naturalis et Experimentally, 325 j 

 Hi star ia Ventorum, 326 j De Augment is 



Scientiarum, 327, 328, 333 ; method, 329 ; 



theory of form, 330 

 Balbani, Nicolo, of Lucca, 13 

 Bartholmess, Christian, 2, 1 6, 20, 97, 311, 



348, 35 



Basaus' Catalogue of Frankfort Books, 65 

 Bayle, Pierre, 348 

 Beauty, 281, 2835 reason apprehends true, 



281 



Bellarmino, censor of Bruno's works, 89 

 Berti, Domenico, 5, 8, 10, n, 94, 95, 333, 



357 



Besler, Bruno's pupil and copyist, 114-17 

 Bible's teaching, the, 299 

 Bochetel, Maria de, 47 

 Body, distraction of the, 288 

 Bodies, movements of, 216 j prime, 224 

 Brunnhofer, 3, 18, 41, 51, 60, 64, 89, 114, 



3<> ' 33.7, 345; 354 

 Bruno, Giovanni, father of Bruno, 3 

 Bruno, Giordano (Filippo), birth and family, 

 3 j childhood, 5, 357 } at Naples, 8, 12 1 ; 

 enters Dominican Order, 9 ; became priest, 

 9 j charges of heresy, 9, 10 j at Rome, 10 j 

 at Venice, n, 66 j at Padua, 12, 69 j at 

 Geneva, 12 j before Consistory, 155 at 

 Toulouse, 1 6, 17 j Doctor in Theology 

 and professor, 16 j at Paris, 17, 18 ; 

 Reader at the university, 20 ; at London, 

 21 j at Oxford, 21 j impressions of 

 Oxford, 25 ; relation to Mauvissiere, 27 j 

 on Mauvissiere, 29 j admiration for 

 women of England, 41 ; hostility in 

 England, 45 ; consults Bishop of Bergamo, 

 48 ; associate of College of France, 49 j 

 at Marburg, 51 j at Wittenberg, 52 j at 

 Helmstadt, 60 j denounced by Mocenigo 

 at Venice, 72, 73 ; examination before 

 Tribunal, 74, 294, 357 ; defence, 75 ; 

 creed, 76, 77, 109 ; abjuration of errors, 

 8 1 j remitted to Rome, 84; orthodoxy, 

 87 j death, 92-96 ; grounds for death, 97 j 

 mission, 103 ; dislike of pedantry, 105 ; 

 originality, 107 ; optimism in philosophy, 



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