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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    The Conftruction and Ufe of the Geos GRAPHICAL WoRDs. re spast| Words confifting of two Parts in the fame We Charagter, foyn’d with an Hyphen, the the latter: The Words in Italick Letters Signifying Places in Antient Geography ; the Words in Roman Letters Places in Modern Geography. .Thus Abdér-thra. Abdera a Town in ancient Thrace. Aginc-art. Agincourt zz Artois. — | Words in a Parenthefis denote that the Place repre- fented by the firft Syllable, or Syllables, ts one of thofé reprefented by the latter, as (Antég-lee) Antego one of the Lieeward Lands; (Cub-ant) Cuba one of the Antilles. =. ial | The Letters Ni: E.S: W. following a Word denote the Situation of a Place; as Antill-luc S. the Antille Tlands, South of the Lucay ffles; Madér-barb W. Madera J/les, Weft of Barbary. The Letters GS. denote Sacred Geography. Italicks joyned with an Hyphen denote the Latitudé and Longitude of a Place; as Agrek-oit the Latitude of Agra 28 Deg. the Longitude 73. Italicks joyn’d with a Comma denote the Proportion of the Kingdom, &c. to Great Britain, as Germt,ut. Germany to Great Britain as 3453 ¢0 1. ‘i able Italicks joyned without an Hyphen denote the Di« fiance from London or Jerufalem ; ds Pardel /c. Paris from London about 225 Miles, Antiochig, Antioch from Jerufalem about 300 Miles, Syllables joyned with this Mark = denote corrés fpondent Places of Antient and Prefent Geography ; as Ach ==\ivad, the antient Achaia the prefent Li vadia. Aa Poses