From Circle to Book. The Evolution of Metaphors and the Birth of Early Modern Encyclopaedism

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2025.1s.35</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Circle to Book. The Evolution of Metaphors and the Birth of Early Modern Encyclopaedism

Original language description

This study explores the evolution of encyclopaedism as an early modern intellectual movement, distinct from the traditional philosophies of rationalism and empiricism. It reveals its relation to pansophism, and presents a theoretical framework for researching what I generally call the “history of cultural ideas”, specifically the history of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia. To depict this history, the study further provides a concise survey on the ideas of “circle”, “cycle”, and “sphere” in ancient Greek cosmology, Roman rhetorics, and Transalpine Renaissance Humanism. The contributions of figures such as Johann Heinrich Alsted and Jan Amos Comenius, culminating in Alsted’s 1630 Encyclopaedia septem tomis distincta, mark a critical shift from metaphorical “circular knowledge” to a comprehensive embodiment of knowledge in one book on all that can be known (omne scibile). In conclusion, the study argues that the conceptual-metaphorical blending of “circle” and “book” was decisive in this process, shaping the modern understanding of the cultural idea of encyclopaedia.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: The Origins of Modern Encyclopaedism: Launching Evolutionary Metaphorology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

35-55

UT code for WoS article

001651309100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105030205032