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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Giordano Bruno, Luis Barahona de Soto, Francisco Suarez, Sidonia von Borcke, Cornelis Ketel, Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, William Whitaker, Karel van Mander, Jacopo Mazzoni, Vincenzo Scamozzi, William Stanley, Pietro Francavilla, Francis Langley, William V, Duke of Bavaria, Bianca Cappello, Honda Tadakatsu, Catherine of Cleves, Walter Balcanquhall, Sakakibara Yasumasa, Menahem Azariah da Fano, John Norden, David Pareus, Giacomo Boncompagni, Sebastian Vizcaino, Karl, Truchsess von Waldburg, Francis Tregian the Elder, Thomas Sparke, Miguel Caldera, Francesco Panigarola, Bernardino Poccetti, Mary Seymour, William Gibson, Stephen Perse, John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, Antonio Priuli, Sasbout Vosmeer, George Gifford, Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, Edward Bruce, 1st Lord Kinloss, George of Lencastre, 2nd Duke of Aveiro, Oda Nagamasu, John Finch, Gregorio Nunez Coronel, Olotoraca, Joan Perez de Lazarraga, Ippolito Andreasi, Pietro Cataldi, Juana Coello, Godfrey Goldsborough, Juraj Barakovi, Andre Guijon, William Norreys, Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani, John Long, Matsumae Yoshihiro, Sait Tatsuoki, Fernando Ruiz de Castro Andrade y Portugal, Soma Yoshitane, Filippo Boncompagni, Muhammad Alguazir, Tsukushi Hirokado, Akizuki Tanezane, Ichij Uchimoto, Oda Nobukane, Matsudaira Iemoto, Akai Terukage. Excerpt: Giordano Bruno (1548 - February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. He was burned at the stake by civil authorities in 1600 after the Roman Inquisition found him guilty of heresy for his pantheism and turned h...