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Sturlese, Rita, "Die Gedächtniskunst zwischen Bruno und Leibniz. Die mnemotechnischen Schriften des Adam Brux, Arzt und Paracelsianer", Sudhoffs Archiv, 78/2 (1994), 192-219.
- Resum
- The objective of this paper is to investigate the influence of Giordano Bruno's art of memory in the German cultural realm of the 17th century. In this respect the work of Adam Brux, a Paracelsian doctor born in 1572 in Sprottau and active in Saxony, offers a particularly interesting case for investigation. In his Simonides redivivus (Leipzig, 1610) Brux provided a summary of several chapters of Bruno's De imaginum, signorum et idearum compositione. As an analysis of Brux's writings will show, he was profoundly influenced by Paracelsus and the Renaissance hermetic tradition and incorporated in his work the view of nature as a living unity and of man as microcosm. Within this hermetic Paracelsian framework, he became interested in Bruno's art of memory and attempted to comprehend its central points: for example, the concept of „phantasia/imaginatio“ as a creative principle. However, Brux failed to develop Bruno's arguments to their fullest theoretical and practical consequences. Because of Leibniz's interest in Brux's „Simonides redivivus“, a further attempt is made to answer the question, already posed by Frances Yates, as to what extent Bruno's writings on the art of memory could have influenced Leibniz's theory of a universal characteristic.
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- Alquímia
Medicina - Psicologia i psiquiatria
- URL
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/20777463
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