The Art of Memory by Frances Yates

The Art of Memory

Frances Yates

448 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced

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A revolutionary book about mnemonic techniques, and their relation to the history of philosophy, science, and literature The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance as it was to everyone before the invention of printing cr...

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