Nicholas of Cusa [Nicolaus Cryffts, Chrypffs or Krebs, Nicolaus de Cusa, Cusanus] (1401-64)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3891. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Cardinal and philosopher, born in Cues or Cusa, Germany. He studied at Heidleberg and Padua, and became a cardinal in 1448. He marks the end of the philosophy of the Middle Ages. In his writing on astronomy, he denied the finitude of the world and its enclosure by crystal walls, suggesting instead that the universe was `interminate'—`without boundaries'—and that the Earth therefore cannot be at...

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