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This extraordinary book from Frances Yates explains how before writing, scholars and story tellers would visualize architecture so they could store memories in
by telesilla 2y ago
This extraordinary book from Frances Yates explains how before writing, scholars and story tellers would visualize architecture so they could store memories in rooms, then they would walk from room to room and recover memories, for example to tell very long stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Memory
- wanderingstan 2y agoAlso covered in the more contemporary book Moonwalking with Einstein with its discussion of building one’s own “memory palace.”
- spitfire 2y agoAlso referenced a number of times in the excellent Hannibal series.
- lelanthran 2y agoAlso in the series The Mentalist.
- jakubmazanec 2y agoAnd Sherlock.