The Infinite Universe Has No Central Reference Point

Renaissance scholar Charles Schmidt put it that Bruno was a self-centered bigot who was obviously peaked because the men of Oxford did not consider him to be as brilliant as he considered himself to be. Still, he credits Copernicus with having unearthed an ancient and true philosophy buried for so many centuries in the dark caverns of a blind, malign, insolent, and envious ignorance. He later wrote the dialogue Ash Wednesday supper in defense of the Copernican theory.