The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment - International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees 1991 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction.- I. Classification of Learning.- 2. History and the Encyclopedia.- 3. The Classification of the Visual Arts in the Renaissance.- 4. The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Aristotelian Division of the Speculative Sciences.- II. Movers and Shapers.- 5. Galen and Francis Bacon: Faculties of the Soul and the Classification of Knowledge.- 6. Forgotten Ways of Knowing: The Kabbalah, Language, and Science in the Seventeenth Century.- 7. Demonstration, Dialectic, and Rhetoric in Galileo s Dialogue.- 8. Interpreting Nature: Gassendi versus Diderot on the Unity of Knowledge.- III. Institutions.- 9. The Curriculum of Italian Elementary and Grammar Schools, 1350-1500.- 10. The Forms of Queen Christina s Academies.- 11. The Early Society and the Shape of Knowledge.- 12. Periodical Publication and the Nature of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe.- 13. Epilogue.- Contributors."

Contributor Bio:  Kelley, Donald R Kelley is the director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and professor of comparative politics at the University of Arkansas. Contributor Bio:  Popkin, Richard H Popkin is the author or editor of over 30 books and 300 articles on philosophy, the history of ideas and Jewish intellectual history. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Washington University (St. Louis) and Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy at UCLA.