Opera

A common lineament in European thinking dating from the end of the 16th century can be traced back to Ramon Llull's (1235-1316) lasting influence. In Llull's >Ars generalis ultima< and his >Ars brevis<, thinkers like Alsted and Leibniz discovered a method that merges different sciences into one organic encyclopedia of knowledge. The depiction of this method in Llull's great >Artes< as well as the comments by Giordano Bruno and Agrippa von Nettesheim - as compiled by the Strasbourg publisher Lazarus Zetzner in his 1651 edition - were crucial for this development. The present edition also contains the important >Opus Aureum< by Valerius de Valeriis.