Back to the Library
The Medieval Church · 1440
On Learned Ignorance
De Docta Ignorantia
Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464
Read elsewhere
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.
Read next