Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 31

Chap.

PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION

I]

Ringelberg seems to have been the

for such a vade-mecum. first to

choose

it

7

as such for the title of his Lucuhrationes vel

potius absolutissima KVKko'jraiheia^ published at Basle in 1541.

After him the Hungarian, Paul Scalichius de Lika (Paulus de Scala), used it for the title of his work Epistemon Encyclopediae s. orbis disciplinarum turn sacrarum turn profanarmn And when it was once adopted, Encyclopedia Bas. 1559. :

seemed to meet with so much favor for manuals of this sort that when, in 1584, the Margarita pMlosophica by Reisch, which had been published in Freiburg in 1503, went through a second edition, the editor inserted also the name of EncyMatthias Martinius, clopedia on the title-page of this work.

Bremen (|1630),

the well-known Reformed theologian of

imi-

tated at once the example of the publishers of Basle in his Idea methodicae et brevis Encyclopediae sive adumbratio uni-

And when

versalis (1606).

also the

Reformed theologian,

Joannes Henricus Alstedt, chose the same name for his Oursus philosophicus, especially for his renowned quarto of over 2000

word Encyclopedia became In a smaller form this work was published as established. early as 1608, but was republished on a much larger scale in 1620, at Herborn, and received the title, Cursus pMlosojfhi-

pages, the modified use of the

cae Encyclopediae

the third volume of which also appeared

;

separately under the of Alstedt

was

title,

many

for

Septem

artes liberales.

years the standard

This work

work

for the

study of general science, which is the more evident from the fact that in 1649 it was reprinted, at Leyden, in four The edition of 1620 was dedicated to the octavo volumes. States-General of the United Netherlands.

A

work is here given, so that seen what was understood by Encyclo-

short sketch of Alstedt's

may be clearly pedia in this third significance.

it

dium Encyclopediae of

First

we have

Compenresume volume of a

philosophicae, or a catechetical

the whole work.

the real work, which

Then is

follows the

a treatise

first

on the four Praecognita

(1) Archeology, or the doctrine of prinHexiology, or the doctrine of intellectual charac(2) and teristics Technology, or the doctrine of the sciences (3) philosopJuca, to wit ciples

:

;

;

;

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