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Dr. R. Grey's Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, etc. Also, Jewish, Grecian, and Roman coins, weights, measures, &c. To which are subjoined, Lowe's Mnemonics delineated. In various branches of literature and science / [Richard Grey].

  • Grey, Richard, 1694-1771.
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1824
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Credit: Dr. R. Grey's Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, etc. Also, Jewish, Grecian, and Roman coins, weights, measures, &c. To which are subjoined, Lowe's Mnemonics delineated. In various branches of literature and science / [Richard Grey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    up learning even before they were aware of it. & ZiMud non peenitebit curasse cum scribere nomina puer (quem- admodum moris est) coeperit, ne hanc operam in vocabulis vulgaribus et forte occurrentibus perdat. Protinus enim potest interpretationem lingueé secretioris quam Grect yracres vocant, dum aliud agitur, ediscere, et inter prima elementa consequi rem postea proprium tempus desidera- turam. It may be sufficient to have just hinted these things to those whose more immediate province it is, and who are.best qualified to judge what methods may most. effectually contribute to the improvement of those under their care. From the account I have given of it, the reader will observe, that. the method here proposed is per- fectly different from that of Simonides the Cean’, so famous among the ancients for being the first inventor of an art of memory, ‘of whom both Tully and Quintilian speak with respect, and of whose method of -places and images (i. e. of having a’ repository £ Quintil. Institutiones Orat, edit. Gibson. Oxon. p. 12. h Eupavidns 6 6 Atwarotwas, 6 Keios, ) TO MNHMONIKON EYPAN, ivinncey “ASivnow Wdarxav, xad wi sixdves ieddnony “Aguodie x. nar ina soysiroves, erm HH. Marm. Arund. i. 1.:70. De Simonide hoc vide Joannem Tzetzem, Chiliade i, cap. 24. Ubi victorias reportasse ait quinquaginta sex. ‘Consule etiam Valerium Maximum, lib. iv. cap. 7. i Non sum tanto ego, inquit, ingenio quanto Themistocles fuit ut oblivionis artem quam memorize malim; gratiamque habeo Simonidi illi Ceio quem primum ferunt artem memorize protulisse. Cicero de Oratore, \ib. ii. k Constat artificiosa memoria locis et imaginibus, &c. Cicero ad Herennium, lib. iii. edit, Car. Steph. p. 30. Loca discunt quam maxime spatiosa, multa varietate signata, domum forte magnam, et in multos diductam recessus. In ea quicquid notabile est animo diligenter affigitur, ut sine PaRtetnge ac mora partes ejus omnes cogitatio possit percurrere. ——Tum que scripserunt, vel cogitatione complectuntur, et alio signo quo moneantur, notant. Quod esse vel ex re tota pot- est, ut de navigatione, militia: vel ex verbo aliquo. «Nam: etiam excidentes, unius admonitione yerbi in memoriam, reponuntur : sit autem signum navigationis, ut anchora; militia, ut aliquid ex ‘armis. Hee itaque digerunt: primum sensum vel locum vesti- bulo quasi assignart, secundum atrio, tum impluvia circumeunts ‘nec cubiculis modo aut exedris, sed stratis. etiam similibusque per