Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 32

8

§ 4.

USAGE

IN

THE

[Div. I

These constitute (4) Didactics^ or the doctrine of methods. the prolegomena, and then come in turn the sciences themselves, divided into theoretical^ practical

and

poetical.

The

twelve in number, to wit Metaphysica. Pneumatica, Physica, Arithmetical, Greometria, Cosmographia, Uratheoretical are

:

Musica and Architectonica. The Mhica, Oeconomica (the the family), Politica, Scolastica (pedagogy)

noscopia, Greographia, Optica,

practical sciences are these five

doctrine

of

And

and Historica. (3)

Rhetoriea,

finally the disciplinae poeticae, or the

number

Arts, are seven in

:

Logica,

(-i)

(7) Mnemonica. From this sketch

:

it

is

(1) Lexica, (2)

(5)

Oratorica,

Grammatica, (6)

evident that under the

Poetica,

name

of

Encyclopedia Alstedt virtually embraced all the sciences, and was bent on establishing them mutually in technical reWhat he offers is no medley or hodge-podge, but lations.

And

a well-ordered whole.

several disciplinae

purpose

is

yet this systematizing of the

His real

merely accidental with him.

is

to collect the peculiar contents of these sciences in

and that to such an extent that in the division Lexica he places before you successively a Hebrew, Greek and Latin dictionary that under the rubric Historica he and that under furnishes a fairly extensive universal history the title of Mathematica, Musica, etc., he presents you on each occasion with a brief manual of these sciences. But a short resume,

;

;

being a lected

man

of systematic thought, he presents these col-

contents not merely in a well-ordered

but even with an

introduction

the character of the

that

department and upon

the other departments.

When,

succession,

throws light its

upon

relation to

for instance, he passes

on

he directs

from Ethiea to Oeconomica, Politica and your attention to the fact that the three last named together form the Symhiotica, i.e. the disciplinae of social life, and how they flow from the principles of Ethiea. And since from the comprehensiveness of the book the impression of the relation of the several parts is of necessity somewhat lost, he Scolastica,

itself with his Comjjendium Encyclopediae, which he treats exclusivelv the mutual relations of the

introduced the work in

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