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.

  • Grey, Richard, 1694-1771.
Date:
1732
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dinary Memory could not retain without it. for as he, who firft contriv’d to affift the Eye with a Telefcope, did not by that pre- tend to give Sight to the Blind, or make any Alteration in the Eye it felf; but only to bring the Objects nearer, that they might be view’d more accurately and diftindtly ; fo neither is it pretended * by this Art to teach thofe to remember every Thing, who never could remember any Thing; or to make Men in an Inftant fkilful in Sciences, which before they were utterly unacquainted with, but only to enable them to retain, with Certainty and Exaétnefs, what they have al- ready a general and competent Knowledge of: that they may not be oblig’d upon every. Occafion to have frefh Recourfe to their Books or Maps, or be under the tirefome Neceffity of reading the fame Things again and again, ftill forgetting them as faft as they read them. ~ To thofe who may objeé&t, of what Ute is it to be thus exact, and content themfelves with an imperfect and confufed Remembrance of what they read, it might be anfwer’d, that fuch as think it of no Ufe, need not, as { prefume they will not, trouble themfelves * Hee ars tota habet hanc vim non ut totum aliquid, cujus in ingeniis noftris pars nulla fit, pariat & procreet, verum ut ea, quz funt orta jam in nobis & procreata, edu- cat atque confirmet. Cic. de Orat. Lib. IL. ° Edit, C. Steph. p. 182. 7 ibe a2 about