The Logic and the Art of Memory The Quest for a Universal Language

by Rossi, Paolo; Clucas, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780826488619
• ISBN10: 0826488617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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 inter

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	vii
Preface	xv
Preface to the second edition	xxi
I The Power of Images and the Places of Memory	1	(28)
II Encyclopaedism and Combinatoria in the Sixteenth Century	29	(32)
III Theatres of the World	61	(20)
IV The Imaginative Logic of Giordano Bruno	81	(16)
V Artificial Memory and the New Scientific Method: Ramus, Bacon, Descartes	97	(33)
VI Encyclopaedism and pansophia	130	(15)
VII The Construction of a Universal Language	145	(31)
VIII The Sources of Leibniz's Universal Character	176	(19)
Appendices
I The Liber ad memoriam confirmandam of Ramon Lull	195	(10)
II An anonymous vernacular treatise of the fourteenth century	205	(4)
III Two fifteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa	209	(11)
IV Documents on the activities of Pietro da Ravenna	220	(5)
V Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa	225	(2)
VI Petrarch as teacher of the art of memory	227	(1)
VII An unpublished text by Giulio Camillo	228	(1)
VIII Memory exercises in seventeenth-century Germany	229	(3)
IX The article on Tart mnemonique' from Diderot's encyclopaedia	232	(3)
X D'Alembert and 'real characters'	235	(4)
Notes	239	(82)
Index	321