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Project

Giordano Bruno's Imagination: Art of Memory between magic and Science

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

3F005507

Duration

01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Wim Verbaal

Fellow

Manuel Mertens

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Theory and methodology of philosophy

Keywords

magic history of science philosophy Renaissace art of memory Literary studies

Project description

By a study of Giordano Bruno's art of memory, influenced by his magic, the prominent position of Bruno's imagination is exposed. After the brunian imagination is discussed throughout his memotechnical, magical and philosophical work, it will be placed in a broader context of history of science, to enlarge our vision of the transition period between aristotelian physics and modern science.

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