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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, author.
- Series:
- Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logic, Modern--History.
- Logic, Modern.
- Memory (Philosophy).
- Language, Universal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611295233
- 9781281295231
- 128129523X
- 9781847144614
- 1847144616
- OCLC:
- 229458646
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