Paolo Rossi

Logic and the Art of Memory (eBook, PDF)

The Quest for a Universal Language
Übersetzer: Clucas, Stephen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A brilliant translation of this classic account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination, the two traditions deriving from the Classical world and the late medieval period, and becoming intertwined in the 16th Century. From this intertwining emerged a new tradition, a grandiose project for an 'alphabet of the world' or 'Clavis Universalis'. Translated with an Introduction by Stephen Clucas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847144614
• Artikelnr.: 40775089

Autorenporträt

Paolo Rossi is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Florence and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction
Preface
Preface to the second edition
I The Power of Images and the Places of Memory
II Encyclopaedism and Combinatoria in the Sixteenth Century
III Theatres of the World
IV The Imaginative Logic of Giordano Bruno
V Artificial Memory and the New Scientific Method: Ramus, Bacon, Descartes
VI Encyclopaedism and pansophia
VII The Construction of a Universal Language
VIII The Sources of Leibniz's Universal Character
Appendices
I The Liber ad memoriam confirmandam of Ramon Lull
II An anonymous vernacular treatise of the fourteenth century
III Two fifteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa
IV Documents on the activities of Pietro da Ravenna
V Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa
VI Petrarch as teacher of the art of memory
VII An unpublished text by Giulio Camillo
VIII memory exercises in seventeenth-century Germany
IX The article on 'L'art mnemonique' from Diderot's encyclopaedia
X D'Alembert and 'real characters' Notes Index