New TOME’s project publication is out! Word as definition. A key principle of the Comenian project for universal language: its sources and contexts by Petr Pavlas is available here. The article investigates a broader milieu of the early modern projects of “universal languages” and the “word as definition” programme.
28.-29. May SHAC meeting with Jo Hedesan, Petr Pavlas and Vojtěch Kaše took place in Oxford.
Petr Pavlas, Lucie Storchová, Lenka Řezníková, Márton Szentpéteri, Martin Žemla and Alessandro Naninni presented talks within two conference panels at 11th annual meeting of Scientiae in Brussels 11.-14. June. The panels were titled 1. From Harmony to Vanity, and Back Again. Hope and Frustration in the Early Modern Knowledge Cultures through the Lens of Metaphorical Expression; 2. The Power of Taste, the Taste of Power, and Georgics of the Soul: Early Modern Psychophysical Metaphors of Knowledge. Here you can check the programme of the conference and the book of abstracts.
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