Logic and the art of memory the quest for a universal language
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
2006.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Athlone contemporary European thinkers. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31612982*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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; Notes; Index.
