Memoria technica: or, A new method of artificial memory [by R. Grey.]. To which are subjoined Lowe's Mnemonics delineated1821 |
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Abbreviatures explained according æra ancient anno Answ Art of Memory Asia asses Attic drachm Attic talent Bath battle Bishop called Christ Congius Cub Digitef cubic cubit cycle Cyrus decim denarius denote Diameter Digit Dioclesian divided Dominical Letter Drachms east Emperor English Miles epact Ephah equal F-eet F-oot facit farthings Feet decim Fudeiz gallon Galsi given by multiplying grains Grecian Hebrew Hebrew T-alent Hín inches Isles Jewish Measures Jugerum Julian period Julius Cæsar Jupiter King Libra Luna M-ina MARS Mauz Memorial Lines method Millia Millions HS Minæ Mnemonics month moon Myriads Obolus ounces Palm period was invented Pint decim priph prophesied Ptol reckoned remembered rest rivers Roman round its axis SATURN SEsterce Sestertia SEXTarius Shek Shekel signifies South stater syllable Syria T-alent of Gold TABLE Talmud Troy Uncia Weights words y,peilo yards Zoid Κοτύλα Πᾶς Σπιθαμή
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Page 184 - ... acquisitions of the mind are sometimes equally fugitive with the gifts of fortune ; and that a short intermission of attention more certainly lessens knowledge than impairs an estate. To assist this weakness of our nature, many...
Page vii - Philander, that seems to me very considerable, although your medallists seldom throw it into the account, which is the great help to memory one finds in medals : for my own part I am very much embarrassed in the names and ranks of the several Roman emperors, and find it difficult to recollect upon occasion the different parts of their History: but your medallists, upon the first siaming of an emperor, will immediately tell you his age, family, and life.
Page 1 - Memory," of which the first edition appeared in 1730. The principal part of his method " is briefly this : to remember anything in history, chronology, geography, etc., a word is formed, the beginning whereof being the first syllable or syllables of the thing sought, does, by frequent repetition, of course draw after it the latter part, which is so contrived as to give the answer. Thus, in history, the Deluge happened in the year before Christ two thousand three hundred and forty-eight. This is signified...
Page 2 - ... 4 and u 5. The diphthong ei will easily be remembered for eight, being the initials of the word. In like manner for the consonants, where the initials could conveniently be retained, they are made use of to signify the number ; as t for three,/ for four, s for six, and n for nine.
Page 130 - ... y, p, k, n, and some vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and several diphthongs, and thereby formed words that denote numbers, which may be more easily remembered: and Mr. Lowe has improved his scheme in a small pamphlet called Mnemonics Delineated...
Page 128 - And therefore, as soon as it was published, it became the subject of the studies of all their learned men, and the chiefest of them, both in Judaea and Babylonia, employed themselves to make comments on it, and these with the Mishnah make up both their Talmuds, that is, the Jerusalem Talmud and the Babylonish Talmud. These comments they call the Gemara...
Page xii - Tum, quae scripserunt vel cogitatione complectuntur, et signo, quo moneantur, notant; quod esse vel ex re tota potest, ut de navigatione, militia, vel ex verbo aliquo. Nam etiam excidentes unius admonitione verbi in memoriam reponuntur. Sit autem signum navigationis ut ancora , militiae ut 20 ah'qiüd ex armis.
Page 146 - MuLTiPLicATiON-sum (I) the facits of the multiplicand twice doubled, are, as they stand against the digits 2 and 4. Then, To multiply the multiplicand into 8 (the last figure of the multiplicator) double the facit of the digit 4— into 6 (the 2d figure, &c.) add the facit of 4 to that of 2 (=6) into 7 (the next figure, &c.) add together the facits of 1, 2, 4 ( — 7) placing each of them, as in the common method of multiplication. 2. In the DivisiON-sum (II) (1) Tabulate the divisor, as in the example,...
Page xii - In ea quidquid notabile est, animo diligenter adfigunt, ut sine cunctatione ac mora partes eius omnes cogitatio possit percurrere. Et primus hie labor est non haerere in occursu ; plus enim quam firma debet esse memoria, quae aliam memoriam 19 adiuvet.
Page 169 - The common air we breathe, near the surface of the earth, is compressed, by the bare weight of the incumbent atmosphere, into a 13769th part of the space it would take up, were it at liberty.