MAKING THE “ROUND OF KNOWLEDGE” IN BACON’S WAKE: NAUDÉ, COMENIUS, AND BROWNE
This paper examines how three of FrancisBacon’s readers, Gabriel Naudé, Jan Amos Comenius, and ThomasBrowne, rethink the humanist library, the genre of the silva, and Bacon’s callfor a new kind of encyclopedism. Naudé adumbrates the organization andcontents of the ideal library so that judicious rea...
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Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad
2011-11-01
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| Series: | Societate şi Politică |
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| Online Access: | http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/images/stories/2011-2/1.%20christopher%20johnson.pdf |