Cusanus

/ kjuːˈseɪnəs /

noun

1. Nicholas. See Nicholas of Cusa

Example Sentences

Cusanus thus laid himself open to the charge of pantheism, which did not fail to be brought against him in his own day.

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His chief philosophical doctrine was taken up and developed more than a hundred years later by Giordano Bruno, who calls him the divine Cusanus.

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In mathematical and physical science Cusanus was much in advance of his age.

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The New Astronomy.—The general criticisms of Cusanus were elaborated by Copernicus.

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Cusanus, in fact, denies the fundamental Aristotelian dogma that the earth is the central point of the universe, because, on general grounds, there can be no absolute central point.

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