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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.
Date:
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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    Recommendatory Character of GREY’S MEMORIA TECH- NICA, written by the Reverend Mr. Lawson, some years Head Master of a Foundation Grammar School, at Wolverhampton ; given in the preface of a work published by him for the use of his pupils. THE probable reasons why Grey’s Memoria TECHNICA has not been more generally received in Grammar Schools, where any separate regard is paid to History and Chronology, are, that it abounds with matter which has not a strict relation to classical authors, and that it is extended to branches of knowledge, such as Geography, Astronomy, &c. where the necessity of the art is not so evident, and the difficulty of application much greater. In defence of this art as a subsidiary aid to young persons in History and Chronology, I will not say, that by the help of it the weakest memory may be able to retain what the strongest could not retain without it; but I have no scruple in recommending it to those who wish to avoid the necessity of perpetual recurrence to chronological maps or tables, and who prefer accuracy and fidelity to confused recollection and imperfect remembrance. It does not indeed confer a new faculty, but it teaches us to manage with skill the capacity of the memory, and contrives such helps as greatly assist its natural powers. bs