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

Abstract

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V Three late sixteenth-century manuscripts on the ars memorativa VI Petrarch as teacher of the art of memory VII An unpublished text by Giulio Camillo.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.