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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Paolo, 1923-2012.

Standardized Title:

Clavis universalis. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Logic, Modern--History.

Logic, Modern.

Memory (Philosophy)--History.

Memory (Philosophy).

Language, Universal--History.

Language, Universal.

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 333 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Summary:

Translator's IntroductionPrefacePreface to the second editionI. The Power of Images and the Places of MemoryII. Encylopaedism and Combinatoria in the Sixteenth CenturyIII. Theatres of the WorldIV. The Imaginative Logic of Giordano BrunoV. Artificial Memory and the New Scientific Method: Ramus, Bacon, and DescartesVI. Encyclopaedism and pansophiaVII. The Construction of a Universal LanguageVIII. the Sources of Leibniz's Universal CharacterAppendicesI. The Liber ad memoriam confirmandam of Ramon LullII. An anonymous vernacular treatise of the fourteenth centuryIII. Two fifteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativaIV. Documents on the activities of Pietro de RavennaV. Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativaVI. Petrarch as teacher of the art of memoryVII. An unpublished text by Giulio CamilloVIII. Memory exercises in seventeenth-century Germany IX. The article on 'L'art mnemonique' from Diderot's encyclopaediaX. D'Alembert and 'real characters'NotesIndex

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0226728269

OCLC:

43786049