Giordano Bruno

> From: <nanom3@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 3:40 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Re: Complex rhythms/meters
>
>
> [Jacky Ligon]
> > and she informed me lots about polymetrical music and
> > hocketing in the middle ages - extremely fascinating to learn about!
> > (Thanks Margo!)
>
> Oh Jacky do share please. The knowledge of 500 years ago always
> astounds me, if only to show sometimes nothing really changes :-)

> From: mschulter <MSCHULTER@...>
> To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:20 PM
> Subject: [metatuning] Re: LONG -- Evolutionary biology and theology
>
>
> The idea of a reconciliation between faith and reason, between science
> and theology, is not new, and sometimes theologians have propounded
> most adventurous scientific hypotheses.
>
> Writing maybe sometime around 1440 for example, Nicolaus of Cusa
> explored the nature of the physical universe in his _De Docta
> Ignorantia_, "On Learned Ignorance," in which he posited a cosmos
> filled with many solar or planetary systems, and various kinds of
> extraterrestrial lifeforms and civilizations.
>
> Among the questions raised by Cusa, known for his role as a Bishop and
> Cardinal seeking concord in a troubled Church, is what we now know as
> the Cosmological Principle, the theory that the basic physical laws of
> the universe are the same everywhere within it. He suggested that
> processes of change observed on the Earth might take place on other
> planets or parts of the universe also -- leaving it as an open
> question. This was contrary to the Aristotelian doctrine that no such
> changes took place in the "superlunary" regions beyond the Moon.

For some info on another really great thinker from 500 years ago -- who
coincidentally (since lately here we've been discussing a great deal the
least honorable aspects of human behavoir, committed for the sake of
religion) was charged with heresy and executed by being burned alive -- see

http://members.aol.com/pantheism0/brunlife.htm

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/bruno.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03016a.htm
(an understandably criticial theological perspective on Bruno)

http://www.setileague.org/editor/brunoalt.htm

http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder6/ng6212.htm
(for you lovers of sacred geometry: this one has some cool diagrams)

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/1457/summary.html
(an entire website devoted to Bruno and things Brunistic, including his
texts)

http://www.esotericarchives.com/bruno/home.htm
(more texts)

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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--- In metatuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
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> love / peace / harmony ...
>
> -monz
> http://www.monz.org
> "All roads lead to n^0"
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Thanks, Joe for th list. Do you know of an online version of The
Infinity that is not in Italian?

John Starrett

----- Original Message -----
From: John Starrett <jstarret@...>
To: <metatuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: [metatuning] Re: Giordano Bruno

> --- In metatuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> <snip>
> > love / peace / harmony ...
> >
> > -monz
> > http://www.monz.org
> > "All roads lead to n^0"
> <snip>
>
> Thanks, Joe for th list. Do you know of an online version of The
> Infinity that is not in Italian?

Sorry, John, I've been looking but can't find one.
But during my search I found this...

Here's a webpage about another composer who has become fascinated
with Bruno:
http://www.uemusic.at/truman/en_templates/view.php3?f_id=628&spr=en

And the only reason I know anything about Bruno is because my idol,
Mahler, became fascinated with Bruno's ideas about 100 years ago.
Mahler's famous remark about his 8th Symphony, "These are planets
and suns revolving", betrays his interest in Bruno.

(oddly enough, the webpage referenced above is from Universal Edition,
who was also Mahler's publisher...)

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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--- In metatuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> > <snip>
> Here's a webpage about another composer who has become fascinated
> with Bruno:
> http://www.uemusic.at/truman/en_templates/view.php3?f_id=628&spr=en
<snip>
> love / peace / harmony ...
>
> -monz

Thanks, Joe.

John Starrett

--- Hi Monz

Glad you are safely back from Europe. What a month to pick a trip!

Thank you for pointing out this fascinating character. At the moment
I am actually working with spectroscopic data from the atomic table
so the hermetic angle is very intriguing. Another wonderful
synchronicity.

Peace,
mary