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The Medieval Church · 1440

On Learned Ignorance

De Docta Ignorantia

Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464

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What it is

God as the coincidence of opposites, approached only by knowing that we do not know — with a universe that has no circumference and no fixed centre.

Why it lasted

The most original philosophical work of the fifteenth century, and its cosmology anticipated by a century the removal of the earth from the centre.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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