Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Beginning as negation in the Italian dialogues of Giordano Bruno. Pt. 1. Bruno and the new science: 1. Between magic and magnetism: Bruno's cosmology at Oxford 2. Bruno's Copernican diagrams 3. Bruno and the new atomism 4. The multiple languages of the new science. Pt. 2. Bruno in Britain: 5. Petrarch, Sidney, Bruno 6. The sense of an ending in Bruno's Heroici furori 7. Bruno and Shakespeare: Hamlet 8. Bruno's Candelaio and Ben Jonson's The alchemist 9. Bruno and the Stuart Court masques 10. Romanticism: Bruno and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 11. Bruno and the Victorians. Pt. 3. Bruno's philosophy of nature: 12. Bruno's natural philosophy 13. Bruno's use of the Bible in his Italian philosophical dialogues 14. Science and magic: the resolution of contraries 15. Bruno and metaphor. Epilogue: Why Bruno's a tranquil universal philosophy finished in a fire. Bibliography of cited works by and on Giordano Bruno. Index
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