The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell.

  • Bell, James, Major.
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1853
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Credit: The first-sight phenomena of historic time, and the ocular mechanism of historic memory : developing organic principles for the most rapid possible acquisition and affixment of historical knowledge, and forming an elucidatory and illustrative companion to the fifth edition, coloured, of Major Bell's twenty-five royal folio synchrono-historic and biographic tables / by Major James Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing, by new varieties of type, by rigid re-examina- tion of tbe dates, and by very laborious and greatly improved readjustments of the synchronical arrange- ment, so far, I bope, succeeded in perfecting my OCULAR Scheme of Organic Classification, that bardly any further alterations whatever, in future editions, will be needed. Our groundwork of historical presentment, then, being fully worked out, my hope is, in the present COMPANION to my Tables, to raise up, upon that groundwork, such a superstructure of further fully- explained aids and mnemonical apphances, as may effectively and permanently advance the acquisition of a scientific and philosophic acquaintance with all the great features and influences of the Past, amidst that wondrous, and hitherto unsurpassed, British people, who are leaving so largely their own historical impress on the PRESENT Grand Era of historical time.* JAMES BELL. Scarborough, August 20th, 1853. * As a most desirable accompaniment to the Royal Folio Chronological Tables, and the present elucidatory and illustrative Companion to those Tables, it is in contempla- tion, as soon as the necessary number of Subscribers shall have been obtained, to publish a short series of Progres- sional Maps of Political Geography, Asian, European, and African, territorially illustrative of the most memorable changes of empire depicted in the author's Consecutive Grand Regions of Historical Time.