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Giordano Bruno

1548 - 1600

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Giordano Bruno ( jor-DAH-noh BROO-noh, Italian: [dʒorˈdaːno ˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno; January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, alchemist, astrologer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended to include the then-novel Copernican model. He practiced Hermeticism and gave a mystical stance to exploring the universe. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets (exoplanets), and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giordano Bruno is the 4th most popular astronomer, the 18th most popular biography from Italy and the 2nd most popular Italian Astronomer.

Giordano Bruno was a philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and Dominican friar. He is most famous for his cosmological theories.

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Among astronomers, Giordano Bruno ranks 4 out of 644. Before him are Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler. After him are Ptolemy, Edmond Halley, Tycho Brahe, Anders Celsius, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, William Herschel, Aristarchus of Samos, and Hipparchus.

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Among people born in 1548, Giordano Bruno ranks 1. After him are Tomás Luis de Victoria, Simon Stevin, Francisco Suárez, Karel van Mander, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Honda Tadakatsu, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Bianca Cappello, Palma il Giovane, Catherine of Cleves, and Fatma Sultan. Among people deceased in 1600, Giordano Bruno ranks 1. After him are Ishida Mitsunari, Sawney Bean, Catharina van Hemessen, Konishi Yukinaga, Hosokawa Gracia, José de Acosta, Luis de Molina, Enrique of Malacca, Gaspar de Lemos, Margrave Andrew of Burgau, and Ōtani Yoshitsugu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giordano Bruno ranks 18 out of 5,161. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), Commodus (161), Fibonacci (1170), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), and Thomas Aquinas (1225). After him are Pope Leo XIII (1810), Benito Mussolini (1883), Cicero (-106), Virgil (-70), Pope Paul VI (1897), and Pope John XXIII (1881).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giordano Bruno ranks 2. Before him are Galileo Galilei (1564). After him are Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625), Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), Riccardo Giacconi (1931), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Angelo Secchi (1818), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658).

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