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born 1943 United States

Margaret Candee Jacob (born June 9, 1943) is an American historian of science and Distinguished Professor of Research at UCLA. She specializes in the history of science, knowledge, the Enlightenment and Freemasonry.

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Bruno was the first philosopher to speculate seriously aboutthe possibility of life on other planets, and he believed nature to be one vast continuum wherein all life is constantly created and transformed.

Bruno's new religion of nature rested upon a pantheistic understanding of the universe. His infinite universe contained innumerable worlds, and its matter is eternally in motion. Bruno was the first philosopher to speculate seriously aboutthe possibility of life on other planets, and he believed nature to be one vast continuum wherein all life is constantly created and transformed.

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