Subtilis, inutilis: the Jesuit pedagogy of ingenuity at La Flèche in the seventeenth century
Using the spider emblem of the ingenium from Antoine de Bourgogne’s Mundi lapis lydius (Compass of the World, 1639) as its pretext, this chapter explores the Jesuit pedagogy of ingenuity at La Flèche in the seventeenth century. It makes sense of this image and its motto by exploring the ways in whic...
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| description | Using the spider emblem of the ingenium from Antoine de Bourgogne’s Mundi lapis lydius (Compass of the World, 1639) as its pretext, this chapter explores the Jesuit pedagogy of ingenuity at La Flèche in the seventeenth century. It makes sense of this image and its motto by exploring the ways in which ingenuity was represented, assessed, and managed in the manuals of rhetoric, poetics, logic, natural philosophy and mixed mathematics which feature in the La Flèche historical library. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:66b095a4-90b5-4c88-b271-b0ce8d52c91b2024-02-15T10:27:40ZSubtilis, inutilis: the Jesuit pedagogy of ingenuity at La Flèche in the seventeenth centuryBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:66b095a4-90b5-4c88-b271-b0ce8d52c91bEnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer2022Garrod, RBerger, SGarber, DUsing the spider emblem of the ingenium from Antoine de Bourgogne’s Mundi lapis lydius (Compass of the World, 1639) as its pretext, this chapter explores the Jesuit pedagogy of ingenuity at La Flèche in the seventeenth century. It makes sense of this image and its motto by exploring the ways in which ingenuity was represented, assessed, and managed in the manuals of rhetoric, poetics, logic, natural philosophy and mixed mathematics which feature in the La Flèche historical library. |
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