Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, also Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, &c. : with tables proper to the respective sciences, and memorial lines adapted to each table / by Richard Grey.

  • Grey, Richard, 1694-1771.
Date:
1732
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Credit: Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, also Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, &c. : with tables proper to the respective sciences, and memorial lines adapted to each table / by Richard Grey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what can be more eafy than to fupply the remain=. ing Part of a Word, which you'are prompted with the Beginning of ? As for Inftance, to complete Cr--- Del--- Ab--- Ex--- Tem--- Cyr--- with their Technical Endings, and make them up intd the following Line already explain’d, Crothf Déletok Abaneh Exdfna Témbybe Cyruts, I have only further to defire the Reader to take Notice, that for his greater Eafe, that Part of the Memorial Words, which reprefents the Numbers or Dates, is diftinguifhed by /talick Characters ; that Part, which ts Roman, an{wers to the {mail Capitals in the Tables. Tia? yo General Epochas and Airas Ecclefaftical and Civil. Bef. Chrift. The Creation of the World [Crothf] 4.004 The univerfal Detuge [Déletox] 2348 The Call of Apraham [Abaneb] irks EXodus of the U/raelites [Exafna} 1491 The Foundation of So/omon’s Temple [Témbyde] 1o1rz Cyrus, or the End of the Captivity [Cyrats] 536 ~ The Birth of Chrif. The Deftruction of Troy [Tréyabert] TES3 The Firft Otympiad { Olympos } 476 The Building of Rome [ Rompuwt ] 754 fEra of Naponasfar [A‘rnabonafpop } 747 The Putrippick Afra, or the Death of 4- lexander [Philido ] 324 called in: the Book of Ad@uccabees the AXra The Ara of Contracts, or of the Seleucide, 312 of the Kingdom of the Greefs ee HE