The Art of Memory

The Art of Memory

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author = Frances A. Yates
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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publisher = Routledge and Kegan Paul
release_date = 1966
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media_type = Print (book)
pages = 400
isbn = ISBN 0226950018
preceded_by = Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
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"The Art of Memory" is a 1966 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending with Gottfried Leibniz and the early emergence of the scientific method in the 17th century.

ee also

*Method of loci

*Art of Memory


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