Common to all these representations was, however, the principle that there was only one planetary system, namely our system, centred on the Sun or on the Earth. Thus, the Sun was very different from the fixed stars, which lacked planets and also had a different ontological status: much brighter and greater than the Sun for Digges,4 or inversely for Kepler. In any case, all these cosmic representations had one point in common: a profound heterogeneity between the unique planetary region and the region (finite, indefinite or actually infinite) of fixed stars. To these four visions of the cosmos we can add a fifth, proposed by the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548--1600) as an original expansion of the heliocentric planetary system to an infinite and homogeneous universe. After an initial presentation in the Italian dialogues published in London in 1584,
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