The Palace of Secrets: B�alde de Verville and Renaissance Conceptions of Knowledge.

Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition with original dustjacket. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand mit Original-Schutzumschlag. PREFACE Contents List of Illustrations Note on References and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Renaissance Encyclopaedism 1 . 1 Encyclopaedic ideals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 1 .2 Genre: Encyclopaedias and miscellanies 2. From the Encyclopaedia to the Miscellany 2. i Philosophical forms 2.2 Philosophical subjects 2.3 Readership 3. Structuring Knowledge 3.1 Encyclopaedic structures 3.2 Encyclopaedic structure under strain 3.3 Miscellanies and fragmentation 4. Representations of Nature 4.1 Meslange, diversit�and difference in nature 4.2 Representing meslange, diversit�and difference 5. Fiction and Philosophy 5.1 Philosophical fictions 5.2 Encyclopaedic revelations inside palaces and cabinets 5.3 Quests inside and outside palaces and cabinets 6. The Status of Knowledge 6.1 Ethics 6.2 Epistemology 6.3 The limits of knowledge. ISBN 9780198158622