About the book: 2018 / English researcher of Renaissance culture Francis A. Yates (1899–1981) - representative of the brilliant scientific community known as the Warburg Institute . The book “Giordano Bruno...” (1964) is the first of a whole series of famous works by Yeats, which made it possible to understand in a completely new way the logic of the development of European culture at the beginning of modern times. Francis A. Yates can rightfully be called one of the first academic researchers of Western esotericism to consider marginal religiosity from the position of classical rationalism. The researcher's focus is on the assumption that the Hermetic, or Hermetic-Kabbalistic, tradition, with its freedom of knowledge and desire for experiment, prepared the way for the scientific revolution.