Abstract
The present text examines some of Spinoza’s references to astronomical phenomena, based on the ontological connections that various scholars and historians, from Bayle to Jacobi, have made between his thought and that of Giordano Bruno — particularly regarding the issue of pantheism. Spinoza’s thought, as well as optics, teaches that the infinite is not a harmony and that the infinite substance (the infinite power to produce infinite things in infinite modes) does not house one world below the moon and another above it, but rather only one indeterminate and open world. It proposes to conceive Spinozism as a “crossroads” between sky and earth, which does not sacrifice the science of celestial phenomena to the science of affections, nor the latter to the former.
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