Paolo Rossi ; translated with an introduction by Stephen Clucas.
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
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2000.
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1 online resource (xxviii, 333 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-320) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The power of images and the places of memory -- Encyclopaedism and combinatoria in the sixteenth century -- Theatres of the worlds -- The imaginative logic of Giordano Bruno -- Artificial memory and the new scientific method: Ramus, Bacon, Descartes -- Encyclopaedism and pansophia -- The construction of a universal language -- The sources of Leibniz's universal character -- Appendices: the Liber ad memoriam confirmandam of Ramon Lull -- An anonymous vernacular treatise of the fourteenth century -- Two fifteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa -- Documents on the activities of Pietro da Ravenna -- Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa -- Petrarch as teacher of the art of memory.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
UNIFORM TITLE
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Clavis universalis.
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English
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Descartes, René,1596-1650-- Criticism and interpretation.
Llull, Ramon,1232?-1316-- Criticism and interpretation.