Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Dialogue of Ingenuous Students: Early Printed Textbooks at Paris -- Chapter 3 Le meilleur livre qui ait jamais été fait en cette matière: Eustachius a Sancto Paulo and the Teaching of Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 4 Philosophical Cartography in Seventeenth-Century Paris -- Chapter 5 The Mathematical Theses Defended at collège de Clermont (1637-1682): How to Guard a Fortress in Times of War -- Chapter 6 Subtilis, Inutilis: The Jesuit Pedagogy of Ingenuity at La Flèche in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 7 Manuscripts as Pedagogical Tools in the Philosophy Teaching of Jean-Robert Chouet (1642-1731) -- Chapter 8 Pierre Bayle as a Teacher of Philosophy -- Chapter 9 Literary Technology and its Replication: Teaching the Torricellian Void and Air-Pump at the Collegio Romano -- Chapter 10 A Mirror of Wisdom: Simon Vouet's Satyrs Admiring the Anamorphosis of an Elephant and Its Afterlives -- Index
This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the interaction between tradition and innovation in the early modern classroom, the site where traditional views of the world were transmitted to the generation that was to give birth to modern philosophy and science. Secondly, it draws together scholars who are centered on ideas and words with other scholars who focus on the role of images in the classroom and the intellectual world in this central period of history. The volume advances our understanding of how philosophy was understood and transmitted in this rich and crucial era. The principal audience for Teaching Philosophy are historians of science, philosophy, art, visual culture, and print culture. The chapters are written in a tone accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It also reaches non-specialist readers interested in subjects including the "scientific revolution," the organization of information, and Renaissance and Baroque visual art
