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Of Learned Ignorance

By Nicholas of Cusa

Translated by Germain Heron

Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1954

First written 1440

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Heron’s translation of De docta ignorantia, in three books on God as the absolute maximum, on the universe as a contracted maximum, and on Christ, uniting the two, setting out the doctrine of learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites.

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Nicholas of Cusa. Of Learned Ignorance. Translated by Germain Heron. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1954.

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@misc{sources-of-learned-ignorance-heron,
  title = {{Of Learned Ignorance}},
  howpublished = {The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society},
  note = {Source. Last modified November 7, 2026},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/sources/of-learned-ignorance-heron}
}

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