'The universe is then one, infinite, immobile.... It is not capable of
comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent
infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.'
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
For more on Bruno, see Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Quite a bit of the book can be found at Googlebooks.
Also see Frances Yates, 'The Religious Policy of Giordano Bruno', [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/750273.pdf?acceptTC=true ]
Also see Frances Yates, 'The Religious Policy of Giordano Bruno', [http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/750273.pdf?acceptTC=true ]