MICHAEL WHITE

A blend of biography and popular science, describing the life and tragic demise of 'science's first martyr', Giordano Bruno. This book re-creates not just the vibrancy of intellectual life at the height of the Renaissance, but also the cost of pursuing ideas, which ran counter to the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church.

Starting with the political philosophy of the Ancient Greeks, through Augustine, Hobbes and Marx, to the recent thought of John Rawls, this is a coherent and comprehensive survey of all the key thinkers and themes.

Leonardo, el primer científico editado por Plaza & janes