The Art of Memory

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The Art of Memory
AuthorFrances A. Yates
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge and Kegan Paul
Publication date
1966
Media typePrint (book)
Pages400
ISBN978-0-226-95001-3
OCLC42905743
Preceded byGiordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 

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.

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