Logiko & la Memorarto / Logic and the Art of Memory

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Rossi, Paolo. Logic and the Art of Memory: The Quest for a Universal Language; translated with an introduction by Stephen Clucas. London; New York: Continuum, 2006. (Translation of the 2nd ed., 1983; orig. 1960)

Vi povas legi ĉerpaĵon ĉe la retejo de Continuum. Jen bonega faka libro pri la tuta intelekta fono de la movado por filozofia universala lingvo, kun pluraj gravaj tradukitaj tekstoj el tiu periodo. La memorarto estas malaperinta intelekta "teknologio", kun radikoj en la Mezepoko kaj koneksoj al la burĝonado de scienco kaj sistemigo de scioj: ĝi gravis antaŭ la amasa presado de libroj en la moderna periodo. Kaj jen (anglalingve), la enhavtabelo:

Translator's Introduction
Preface
Preface to the second edition
I. The Power of Images and the Places of Memory
II. Encylopaedism 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, and 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 de 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 An unpublished text by Giulio Camillo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

Descartes to Mersenne on universal language, Ramón Llull

It is well known that Descartes is a pioneer in having provided inspiration for the universal language idea, in an era when the scientific revolution was accompanied by a philosophical revolution and the attempt to perfect human thought via the construction of logically ordered languages. An entry point for this literature can be found in my bibliography, with web links:

Philosophical and Universal Languages, 1600-1800, and Related Themes: Selected Bibliography

Descartes' key letter on the subject can be found in English translation on my web site:

Descartes to Mersenne, 20 November 1629 

It is also well known that the medieval mystic Ramón Llull was a pioneer of the ars combinatoria, which inspired the philosophical language program as well as modern developments in logical calculi. Descartes himself was not so charmed by him:

Descartes to Mersenne, 25 December 1639