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Galen and Francis Bacon: Faculties of the Soul and the Classification of Knowledge

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The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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The major focus of this paper is Bacon’s selection of three specific faculties of the soul (memory, imagination, reason) as classificatory principles, and more particularly the source of this classification.

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Olivieri, G.T. (1991). Galen and Francis Bacon: Faculties of the Soul and the Classification of Knowledge. In: Kelley, D.R., Popkin, R.H. (eds) The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 124. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3238-1_5

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