:Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction: circles of learning 1. The space of the encyclopedia 2. The idea of a theatre 3. Tricks of vision, truths of discourse: illustration, ars combinatoria, and authority 4. Holding the mirror up to nature?: the humanist theatre beside itself 5. The show of learning and the performance of knowledge: humors, Epigrams, and 'an universal store' 6. Francis Bacon's theatre of Orpheus: 'literate experience' and experimental science Notes Bibliography Index.

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