Logic and the art of memory : the quest for a universal language

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rossi, Paolo, 1923-2012
Other Authors: Clucas, Stephen, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
Series:Athlone contemporary European thinkers.
Subjects:
Logic, Modern > History.
Memory (Philosophy)
Language, Universal.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Language, Universal
Logic, Modern
History
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Table of 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.

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