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Edge of the Universe

Edge of the Universe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKHnZWyDCUk
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 Dinesh
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Bruno’s plato.stanford.edu/entries/bruno philosophical system was rooted in his cosmology. The standard picture of the cosmos in the sixteenth century was essentially the same that Aristotle developed nearly 2000 years earlier, and the same that Ptolemy had formalized in the second century AD: The universe was a finite space with the Earth at the center, and the stars and other heavenly bodies circulated around us on the celestial spheres. Throughout the centuries a few thinkers had speculated otherwise, namely that the universe might actually be infinite. As early as 300 BC., Epicurus reasoned that universe must be infinite and without boundaries.” (Letter to Herodotus, 41-42) in the first century B.C., Lucretius wrote:

The All that is, wherever its paths may lead, is boundless. . . . There can be no end to anything without something beyond to mark that end. . . . Nor does it matter at which point one may stand: whatever position a man takes up, he finds that All still endless alike in all directions

Closer to Bruno’s time, the neo-Platonist philosopher Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) also discussed the possibility and significance of an infinite cosmos. Then came Copernicus ‘De revolutionibus,’ published upon his death in 1543, which placed the sun at the center of the cosmos and the Earth in orbit around it. But Copernicus still maintained that the universe was finite, and that the celestial spheres circled around the solar system; in that sense he was less revolutionary than is commonly believed.

Bruno gathered these insights from Epicurus, Cusa, and Copernicus and pieced together a strikingly modern picture of the cosmos. His universe was an infinite space composed of infinitely many solar systems like our own. He was one of the first to use modern terminology, reserving ‘world’ for the Earth and other planets and using ‘universe’ to mean the whole infinite cosmos. Bruno saw neither the Earth nor the sun as the center of the universe; like Lucretius, he realized that, in an infinite cosmos, every plae would appear as the center. Bruno said: “The Earth no more than any other world is at the center . . . The Earth is not in the center of the universe, it is central only to our own surrounding space.” ~ Page 87
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 Dinesh
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Panpsychism in the West
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 Wilfried
Wilfried
einfach nur Klasse
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 Rosalyn Hilborne
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Well chosen music link for this great shot Dinesh.
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 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
without words ...
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