The Art of Memory
by Frances A Yates
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appears in Memory, Memory, and Memory Improvement.
The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance as it was to everyone before the invention of printing created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occul...
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