Nicholas Hill (1570 to about 1610) was an English natural philosopher, considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno, and is known for his 1601 book Philosophia epicurea. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1590 and was removed in 1591, was supported by Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, and later lived in Rotterdam. The Philosophia epicurea, democritiana, theophrastica set out the classical atomism of Epicurus and skepticism in 509 aphorisms, drawing on Bruno, Lullism, Neoplatonism and Paracelsus as well as classical authors, and included thoughts on an imaginary voyage to the Moon. He was a Copernican, but stopped short of exploring atomism as a mechanistic philosophy. John Donne satirized him and Ben Jonson mocked him in an epigram.
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was an English natural philosopher, considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno
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graduated B.A. and became Fellow in 1590
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was a work on the classical atomism of Epicurus and skepticism
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considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno
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was an English natural philosopher, considered a disciple of Giordano Bruno
Associated With: Epicureanism, Works, Philosophia epicurea, school
was a work on the classical atomism of Epicurus and skepticism
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