Was ist ein Polyhistor? Gehversuche auf einem verlassenen Terrain

Far from being part only of Early Modern learning, Polyhistory as a way of gathering and shaping knowledge can be traced through the Middle Ages back to Grammar and Rhetoric (copia rerum ) of Roman Antiquity. Practical use and wise limitation (vs. scientia supervacua ) have always been the regulatio...

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Published in:Studia Leibnitiana 1990-01, Vol.22 (1), p.76-89
Main Author: JAUMANN, HERBERT
Format: Article
Language:ger
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DISKUSSIONSBEITRÄGE UND BERICHTE
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Summary:Far from being part only of Early Modern learning, Polyhistory as a way of gathering and shaping knowledge can be traced through the Middle Ages back to Grammar and Rhetoric (copia rerum ) of Roman Antiquity. Practical use and wise limitation (vs. scientia supervacua ) have always been the regulations to polyhistorical libido sciendi. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Polyhistory assumed the very high standard of Universitatis rerum historia (Mylaeus), before it was losing its value by the rise of the new Cartesian paradigm of subject-centered epistemology. It is indispensable to survey the whole of its tradition, however incompletely and tentatively, in order to come to due distance to a term with polemical connotations dating from early Enlightenment when Polyhistory lost its credit.
ISSN:0039-3185