Giordano Bruno (; ; 1548 – 17 February 1600), born
Filippo Bruno, was an Italian
Dominican friar,
philosopher,
mathematician,
poet, and
astrologer. He is celebrated for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then novel
Copernican model. He proposed that the
stars were just distant
suns surrounded by their own
exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as
cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact
infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".