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Author:   Paolo Rossi ,  Stephen Clucas
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition:   New ed of 2 Revised ed
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.446kg
ISBN:  

9780826488619

ISBN 10:   0826488617
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   03 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

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; I The Liber ad memoriam confirmandam of Ramon Lull; II An anonymous vernacular treatise of the fourteenth century; III Two fifteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa; IV Documents on the activities of Pietro da Ravenna; V Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa; VI Petrarch as teacher of the art of memory; VII An unpublished text by Giulio Camillo; VIII memory exercises in seventeenth-century Germany; IX The article on 'L'art mnemonique' from Diderot's encyclopaedia; X D'Alembert and 'real characters' Notes Index

Reviews

'A pioneering work.' Frances Yates 'The best history of universal languages.' Hans Aarsleff 'Bellissimo.' Umberto Eco

Author Information

Paolo Rossi is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Florence and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Stephen Clucas is lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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