Bernardino Telesio
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Bernardino Telesio was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually dev
Bernardino Telesio
De rerum natura iuxta propria principia, 1586
Statue of Bernardino Telesio in the Piazza XV Marzo, Cosenza
Tommaso Campanella
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Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet.
Bernardino Telesio
…Italian movement which protested against the accepted authority of abstract reason, and sowed the seeds from which sprang the scientific methods of Tommaso Campanella and Giordano Bruno, of Francis Bacon and René Descartes, with their widely divergent results. He, therefore, abandoned the purely intellectual sphere…
Portrait of Campanella by Francesco Cozza
Former Dominican convent at Placanica
Apologia pro Galileo, 1622
Metaphysica, 1638