Logic and the Art of Memory

Paolo Rossi is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Florence and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

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.