Please allow me to recommend Matt Dotson’s blog the Soul Spelunker. This new series on Bruno has been fun to read.

Giordano Bruno formulated the most impressive theory of matter of any European philosopher, perhaps to this day. Using only his powers of speculation, Bruno formulated an amazingly powerful ontological theory that rejected Platonic dualism in favor of a strict monistic view of the universe. Of course, as any good philosopher, Bruno stood on the shoulders of the giants who preceded him. He synthesized ideas from the Presocratics, Stoics, Nicholas of Cusa, and others to create an entirely new idea concerning the stuff of the universe we call “matter.”

via Soul Spelunker.