Synopsis
The New Art Of Memory, Founded Upon The Principles Taught By M. Gregor von Feinaigle: And Applied To Chronology, History, Geography, Languages, Systematic Tables, Poetry, Prose, And Arithmetic" by Gregor von Feinaigle. The work outlines a comprehensive mnemonic system built on spatial memory and memory palaces, describing how to fix knowledge in rooms with walls subdivided into places, using numbers transformed into letters to create vivid images; it applies the method to chronology, geography, languages, poetry, and arithmetic, and includes discussions of principal artificial memory systems and historical anecdotes of extraordinary memory by figures such as Simonides, Lully, Schenckel, etc. It includes plates, diagrams, and instructions about constructing memory palaces, symbol lists, and rules for learning languages, calculations, and statistics. The editor adds an annex on Principal Systems of Artificial Memory Chronologically arranged, and Instances of the Extraordinary Powers of Natural Memory. The book also contains historical accounts of Feinaigle's public exhibitions and educational influence.
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