%0 Journal Article
%T MAKING THE ¡°ROUND OF KNOWLEDGE¡± IN BACON¡¯S WAKE: NAUD¨¦, COMENIUS, AND BROWNE
%A Christopher D. JOHNSON
%J Societate £¿i Politic£¿
%D 2011
%I Universitatea de Vest Vasile Goldis din Arad
%X This paper examines how three of FrancisBacon¡¯s readers, Gabriel Naud¨¦, Jan Amos Comenius, and ThomasBrowne, rethink the humanist library, the genre of the silva, and Bacon¡¯s callfor a new kind of encyclopedism. Naud¨¦ adumbrates the organization andcontents of the ideal library so that judicious readers may integrate the oldand new learning. In calling for a single pansophist book, Comenius heraldsBacon¡¯s inductive method and yet would restore metaphysics to theencyclopedia. And after his own efforts in Baconian encyclopedism in thePseudodoxia Epidemica, Thomas Browne writes a catalogue of books andartifacts that is at once an elegy to the republic of letters and a ludic plea toinclude admiratio in ¡°the round of knowledge.¡± This diverse receptionhistory emblemizes the rich, often contradictory potential of Bacon¡¯sencyclopedic vision.
%K Francis Bacon
%K Gabriel Naud¨¦
%K John Evelyn
%K Jan Amos Comenius
%K Thomas Browne
%K library
%K encyclopedia
%U http://www.uvvg.ro/socpol/images/stories/2011-2/1.%20christopher%20johnson.pdf