The Art of Memory by Frances Yates

The Art of Memory

Frances Yates

448 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance – as it was to everyone before the invention of printing – created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited...

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