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

Author(s)

    • Rossi, Paolo
    • Clucas, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

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

Paolo Rossi ; translated with an introduction by Stephen Clucas

Athlone Press, 2000

Other Title

Clavis universalis : arti della memoria e logica combinatoria da lullo a leibniz

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Note

First published in Italy 1983 by Società editrice il Mulino, Bologna

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is a translation of Rossi's account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA55685819
  • ISBN
    • 0485114682
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxviii, 333 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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