- Paperback
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 2nd ed. edition (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226950018
- ISBN-13: 978-0226950013
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #892,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Whoever Said This Book is Outstanding is Right,
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This review is from: The Art Of Memory (Paperback)
Frankly I don't understand why some on this board board can't give this book a five if they have read it carefully from beginning to end covering about 4,000 years of thoughts on memory. Perhaps a little background and appreciation of philosophy and its impact on the surrounding world is needed. The one commentator here who can't see the relevance of all the occultism that the book transgresses towards can't see the big picture here. We are being shown the originations of the explosion of arts and science in western civilization that occurred in the last 600 years, and, in a way, the reemergence of a pseudo sun-worshipping society, and, perhaps were Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism came from. The main thrust of this book helps explain the emergence of method or the scientific method, and the foundations of Copernicus, Bacon, Descartes and Leibniz.How much more breathtaking can that be. Fantastic work. I wish I had teachers like Yates.
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Amazing,
This review is from: The Art of Memory (Paperback)
This is reasonably hard going, as all Yates books are, but it really a great read. Complex and deep. Something to open your eyes to a older (and forgotten) world.
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Outstanding book,
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This review is from: The Art Of Memory (Paperback)
An incredible book and very historical in nature. I would refer to the previous reviews of this book in the light of their individual statements. The reviewers helped me in the purchasing of this book, also Yates, and her research on the art of memory does not disappoint me. In fact, this book has taken me in many different directions regarding memory: Loci, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, history, mysticism, magic, mathematics, Egyptology, alchemy. This book is very special because of the implications that a "art of memory" has on our history, and I believe in our future. This book is not the easiest of reading material (I am no history buff) but is a spectacular read.
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