Logic and the Art of Memory
The Quest for a Universal Language
Published on 1. June 2001
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-485-11468-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a translation of Rossi's account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
587 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-485-11468-3 (9780485114683)
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Persons
Paolo Rossi is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Florence and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Content
The power of images and place of memory; encyclopaedism and "Combinatoria" in the 16th century; theatres of the world; the imaginative logic of Giordiano Bruno; artificial memory and new scientific method - Ramus, Bacon, Descartes; encyclopaedism and pansophia; the construction of a universal language; the sources of Liebniz's universal character; appendices.