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Cusanus

/ kjuːˈseɪnəs /

noun

  1. Nicholas. See Nicholas of Cusa

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Cusanus thus laid himself open to the charge of pantheism, which did not fail to be brought against him in his own day.

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His chief philosophical doctrine was taken up and developed more than a hundred years later by Giordano Bruno, who calls him the divine Cusanus.

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In mathematical and physical science Cusanus was much in advance of his age.

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The New Astronomy.—The general criticisms of Cusanus were elaborated by Copernicus.

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Cusanus, in fact, denies the fundamental Aristotelian dogma that the earth is the central point of the universe, because, on general grounds, there can be no absolute central point.

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