Calvin’s Harmony of the Law is his commentary on the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Whereas the majority of Calvin’s commentaries are chronologically arranged–beginning ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and ...
Continue Reading →Published only posthumously, Giordano Bruno’s essays collected here present a window into late 16th century thinking about natural philosophy as an emerging discipline that would ...
Continue Reading →The first complete modern translation of Bruno’s “De Imaginum Signorum et Idearum Composition,” first published in 1591, a complex multilevel work that incorporates astrology, hermetic, ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
Continue Reading →Published in 1494 in Basel, The Ship of Fools was soon translated into every major European language. It provoked a vast number of imitations and ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1529, the “Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex” argues that women are more than equal to men in ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
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