Pavao Skalić wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Pavao Skalić as Renaissance humanist and encyclopedist from Croatia (1534-1573).
Pavao Skalić was born at Zagreb in 1534. He studied at University of Vienna.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
Among his principal works are Conclusiones in omni genere scientiarum and Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon. Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
Pavao Skalić died in 1573, aged 39. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: Conclusiones in omni genere scientiarum
- Notable work: Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon
