The Metaphor of Harmony in Comenius and in Early Modern Science

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Název v původním jazyce

The Metaphor of Harmony in Comenius and in Early Modern Science

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Jan Amos Comenius is sometimes said to be a “thinker of harmony”. He systematically implemented the metaphor of harmony into his epistemology to describe the natural “consonance” of all things, imitate God’s order, and control the coherence of the current knowledge. Using this musical metaphor abounding with strong mathematical and cosmological connotations, he manifested his advanced intellectual predilection for order and revealed significant sources of his conceptual thinking. On the one hand, his church, the Unity of Brethren, had a highly developed musical culture and music was extensively practised in the Unity (Jan Blahoslav’s Musica, various books of liturgical canticles, etc.). On the other hand, there are many other prominent “thinkers of harmony” in early modernity: Comenius’ eclectic teacher Alsted with his Logicae systema harmonicum and Physica harmonica, Johannes Kepler with Harmonices Mundi, Marin Mersenne with Harmonicorum libri XII, and, of course, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, to name just a few examples. By confronting Comenian texts (including his Gospel harmonies) with the NOSCEMUS database of digital transcriptions (=ca. 1000 representative early modern scientific texts) and some other sources, this lecture analysed the heuristic and explanatory function of the Harmony metaphor in Comenius and within early modern scholarly discourse.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Metaphor of Harmony in Comenius and in Early Modern Science

Popis výsledku anglicky

Jan Amos Comenius is sometimes said to be a “thinker of harmony”. He systematically implemented the metaphor of harmony into his epistemology to describe the natural “consonance” of all things, imitate God’s order, and control the coherence of the current knowledge. Using this musical metaphor abounding with strong mathematical and cosmological connotations, he manifested his advanced intellectual predilection for order and revealed significant sources of his conceptual thinking. On the one hand, his church, the Unity of Brethren, had a highly developed musical culture and music was extensively practised in the Unity (Jan Blahoslav’s Musica, various books of liturgical canticles, etc.). On the other hand, there are many other prominent “thinkers of harmony” in early modernity: Comenius’ eclectic teacher Alsted with his Logicae systema harmonicum and Physica harmonica, Johannes Kepler with Harmonices Mundi, Marin Mersenne with Harmonicorum libri XII, and, of course, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, to name just a few examples. By confronting Comenian texts (including his Gospel harmonies) with the NOSCEMUS database of digital transcriptions (=ca. 1000 representative early modern scientific texts) and some other sources, this lecture analysed the heuristic and explanatory function of the Harmony metaphor in Comenius and within early modern scholarly discourse.

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O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: Počátky novověkého encyklopedismu: Spuštění evoluční metaforologie</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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