| Description |
xv, 400 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The three Latin sources for the classical art of memory -- The art of memory in Greece: memory and the soul -- The art of memory in the middle ages -- Mediaeval memory and the formation of imagery -- The memory treatises -- Renaissance memory: the memory theatre of Giulio Camillo -- Camillo's theatre and the venetian renaissance -- Lullism as an art of memory -- Giordano Bruno: the secret of shadows -- Ramism as an art of memory -- Giordano Bruno: the secret of seals -- Conflict between the Brunian and Ramist memory -- Giordano Bruno: last works on memory -- The art a of memory and Bruno's Italian dialogues -- The theatre memory system of Robert Fludd -- Fludd's memory theatre and the globe theatre -- the art of memory and the growth of scientific method |
| Analysis |
Mnemonics History |
| Notes |
Bibliographical footnotes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes |
| Subject |
Mnemonics -- History.
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Memory -- history
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| LC no. |
66022770 |
| ISBN |
0226950018 |
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