"First, in his suppositions, he proceeds from unnatural fou… - Giordano Bruno

"First, in his suppositions, he proceeds from unnatural foundations, pretending there are parts of the infinite; there are none who can support this, for there are no partial infinities; this is an implied contradiction, that infinity has a lesser part and a greater part, but you approach infinity no more quickly if you count by hundreds than by threes, for infinity has an infinity of hundreds no less than an infinity of threes. Infinite distance is measured in infinite feet equally with infinite miles, and when we would speak of parts of an infinite distance, we don't say "a hundred miles" or "a thousand parasangs", as these describe parts of a finite distance; they are in fact parts only of a finite whole, to which they have a proportion; they cannot be said to be parts of that to which they have no proportion. Thus a thousand years isn't part of eternity, because it has no proportion to the whole, but is instead a partial measure of time, like ten thousand years or a hundred thousand centuries."

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Giordano Bruno (1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian universalist pantheist monist philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet, who, following an Inquisition for heresy and the denial of several Catholic doctrines, was burned at the stake in Rome, 1600; born Filippo Bruno, in Nola, Italy, he often called himself Il Nolano (The Nolan).

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Native Name: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus

Alternative Names: Filippo Bruno

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