Jordano Bruno and hermetic tradition. 2nd edition. Yates F.A.

The English researcher of the Renaissance Culture Francis A. Yates (1899-1981) is a representative of the brilliant scientific community known as the “Institute of Warburgh”. The book "Jordano Bruno." (1964)-The first of the whole series of famous works by Yates, who allowed us to completely understand the logic of the development of European culture at the beginning of the New Age. Francis A. Yates can rightly be called one of the first academic researchers of Western esotericism, considering marginal religiosity from the perspective of classical rationalism.

The focus of the researcher has the assumption that hermetic, or hermetic-kabbalistic, tradition, with its freedom of knowledge and the desire for experiment, prepared the ground for the scientific revolution.