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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820556003321

Autore

Rossi Paolo <1923-2012, >

Titolo

Logic and the art of memory : the quest for a universal language / / Paolo Rossi ; translated with an introduction by Stephen Clucas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-29523-X

9786611295233

1-84714-461-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers

Disciplina

160.903

Soggetti

Logic, Modern - History

Memory (Philosophy)

Language, Universal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.