The Renaissance · School
Renaissance Naturalism
Conceived the cosmos as infinite and alive; Bruno and Nicholas of Cusa broke open the closed medieval universe.
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Nicholas of Cusa库萨的尼古拉
'Learned ignorance': God is the coincidence of opposites, the universe has neither centre nor edge, and the infinite is to be approached through mathematical figures.
Giordano Bruno布鲁诺
Preached an infinite universe with countless worlds; the Inquisition burned him in Rome's Campo de' Fiori, and he became the martyr of free thought.