Symbolic Images in Logic College Notebooks and Thesis Prints of the Southern Netherlands

My contribution aims to examine the manifold roles of images in lecture notebooks produced in the Southern Low Countries. Such representations were used as didactic and mnemonic tools but also, on a more general note, as a way to stage and celebrate knowledge, learning and time spent in community at university. I focus in particular on representations of logic. These drawings and engravings are on the one hand, direct references to the course subject and on the other hand, compositions taken from various sources, and adapted to the philosophical content taught. Emphasis is be placed on this se... Mehr ...