Gabriel Peignot’s bibliographic systems: a scientific metabibliography

Abstract

The epistemological-historical reflection establishes a relation between Gabriel Peignot’s thought, the repertoire of bibliographic systems mapped by the bibliographer in his work Dictionnaire Raisonné de Bibliologie, and the analytic-discursive potentials that emerge from the cartographies of sciences before the 19th century. As a theoretical-exploratory study, the aim was to identify the influences of Peignot (such as Bacon, Diderot, D'Alembert and Condillac) and the systems covered by it, leading to the elaboration and historical repercussion of bibliographic classifications. The conclusions pointed to a set of approaches that allow the recognition of sources for the history of science and for a distinct epistemological cartography for a historiography of the classifications, as well as of the epistemological aspects themselves and their institutionalizations that preceded the nineteenth century.

Keywords:
Gabriel Peignot; Bibliographic System; Bibliographic Classification; Modernity; History of Science