The apex of the imagery mnemonic tradition was Giordano Bruno’s 16th
century occult memory system (Yates, 1966), which sought to unify earthly
knowledge and the supercelestial world of ideas using variants of the ancient
method of loci linked to magical star-images organized according to the
associative structure of astrology. For example, one Brunian method combined (a)
a square architectural system of rooms subdivided into places for storing images
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of everything in the physical world with (b) a round “Lullian” memory device
(Yates, 1966, pp. 173-198), in which moveable concentric wheels were used like a
slide ruler to combine different subjects and predicates to generate new
propositions. Bruno’s version of the round system contained the celestial figures
and images that were to animate , organize, and unify the earthly images
contained in the memory rooms.
The apex of the imagery mnemonic tradition was Giordano Bruno’s 16th
century occult memory system (Yates, 1966), which sought to unify earthly
knowledge and the supercelestial world of ideas using variants of the ancient
method of loci linked to magical star-images organized according to the
associative structure of astrology. For example, one Brunian method combined (a)
a square architectural system of rooms subdivided into places for storing images
2
of everything in the physical world with (b) a round “Lullian” memory device
(Yates, 1966, pp. 173-198), in which moveable concentric wheels were used like a
slide ruler to combine different subjects and predicates to generate new
propositions. Bruno’s version of the round system contained the celestial figures
and images that were to animate , organize, and unify the earthly images
contained in the memory rooms.
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