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.
Date:
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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    INTERTEXTURE OF ANCIENT ) First-Sight Phenomena AND EARLY MODERN TIME.} of TableV.,the earliest compartment of Modern Time, from 476 to 888 after Christ; occupying 412 years. Formation of Modern States. Goths, Franks, and Vandals, p. 96. General Ignorance in Alfred's Day, p. 121. Rise, Meridian, and Disseverance of Early Modern Empire; Franks, and Saracens. Saxons. Empire of the Ocean, Sea-Kings of Scandinavia, p. 110. Contemporary Identifications of remarkable, and easily tenable Character. Charlemagne, Haran-ur-Raschid, and Alfred: their Ocular Emplacement is triangular, p. 126, and thus immovable from Memory. The Monarchs of a Thousand Years, p. 127. Harun's Presents, p. 124, Elephant, Clepsydra. Charlemagne's Signet in his Sword, p. 123. Alfred; and Alfred's Ashes, pp. 128 to 154. Plea for the local Preserva- tion and Perpetuation of the Monumental, Inscrip- tional, and remote Architectural Remains of our Isle—Carisbroke Castle, p. 142. Empire of the Desert, pp. 157 to 208—Khalifs of Medina, Da- mascus, and Bagdad: the Lamp of Science and Learning, during European darkness, is kept burning by the Arabs. Ecclesiastical Architecture, p. 191. Paradoxical and inappropriate Conversion of Jewish into Christian Names, p. 194. The whole, conjointly with the appended TABU- LAR TEACHER OF THE THEORY AND THRIFT OF COMBINATIVE AND CORROBORATIVE HISTORIC ME- MO RY, ILLUSTRATIVELY AND VARIOUSLY EXHIBITING THE OCULAR Elements and Agencies of rapid Tabular Historic Teaching ; and the NATURAL Mnemonics of Historical Chronology.