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Gregory von Feinaigle (1765-1819)

The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle / to which are added some account of the principal systems of artificial memory. From the earliest period to the present time ; illustrated by engravings.

Congestorium artificiose memorie ... / V.P.F. Joa[n]nis Romberch de Kyrspe. Regularis obseruantie predicatorie: ; omnium de memoria preceptiones aggregatim complectens. Opus omnibus theologis, predicatoribus [et] [con]fessoribus, juristis, iudicibus procuratoribus, aduocatis [et] notariis, medicis, philosophis. Artium liberalius professoribus. Insuper mercatoribus nu[n]ciis [et] tabellariis per necessarium.

The new art of memory, founded upon the principles taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle: and applied to chronology, history, geography, languages, systematic tables, poetry, prose, and arithmetic / To which is added, some account of the principal systems of artificial memory. From the earliest period to the present time; with instances of the extraordinary powers of natural memory.

Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, also Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, &c. : with tables proper to the respective sciences, and memorial lines adapted to each table / by Richard Grey.

A hand with images of saints in the digits, as a mnemonic for good Christian conduct. Coloured engraving.

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A hand with images of saints in the digits, as a mnemonic for good Christian conduct. Coloured engraving.