ABSTRACT
Bartholomew Keckermann began his career as a logician, and it was mostly his published writings on logic that established his European reputation. He published his long theoretical textbook on logic—that is, his System of Logic—as well as two abridged versions thereof. While the formats of many of Keckermann’s writings on individual academic disciplines were novel, his philosophical and philological writings discussed roughly the same points of doctrine that were examined by other European authors of the same period. Keckermann’s academic writings generally appear to have differed relatively little in content from the content of writings of other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authors, including the hundreds of sixteenth-century authors whom he cited as well as those seventeenth-century authors who made use of Keckermann’s writings within their own. In his monograph on Keckermann, Bronislaw NadolskiNadolski, provided a substantial number of very fine illustrations.
