The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Donald R. Kelley

      Pages 1-4

3. Classification of Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. History and the Encyclopedia

      • Donald R. Kelley

      Pages 7-22

   3. The Classification of the Visual Arts in the Renaissance

      • Claire J. Farago

      Pages 23-48

   4. The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Aristotelian Division of the Speculative Sciences

      • Charles H. Lohr

      Pages 49-58

4. Movers and Shapers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Galen and Francis Bacon: Faculties of the Soul and the Classification of Knowledge

      • Grazia Tonelli Olivieri

      Pages 61-81

   3. Forgotten Ways of Knowing: The Kabbalah, Language, and Science in the Seventeenth Century

      • Allison P. Coudert

      Pages 83-99

   4. Demonstration, Dialectic, and Rhetoric in Galileo’s Dialogue

      • Nicholas Jardine

      Pages 101-121

   5. Interpreting Nature: Gassendi Versus Diderot on the Unity of Knowledge

      • Lynn S. Joy

      Pages 123-134

5. Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. The Curriculum of Italian Elementary and Grammar Schools, 1350–1500

      • Robert Black

      Pages 137-163

   3. The Forms of Queen Christina’s Academies

      • Susanna Åkerman

      Pages 165-188

   4. The Early Royal Society and the Shape of Knowledge

      • Michael Hunter

      Pages 189-202

   5. Periodical Publication and the Nature of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe

      • Jeremy D. Popkin

      Pages 203-213

   6. Epilogue

      • Richard H. Popkin

      Pages 215-223

6. Back Matter

   Pages 225-237

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The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter­ national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.

• Age of Enlightenment
• Denis Diderot
• Francis Bacon
• Renaissance
• enlightenment
• kabbalah
• seventeenth century

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