Excerpt from Dr. R. Grey's Memoria Technica, or Method of Artificial Memory, Applied to and Exemplified in Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy: Also, Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, Measures, &C., To Which Are Subjoined, Lowe's Mnemonics Delineated, in Various Branches of Literature and Science

Of this nature is the following method; the design of which is, not to make the memory better, but things more easy to be remembered so' that by the help of it, an ordinary, or even a weak memory, shall be able to retain what the strongest and most extraordinary memory could not retain without it.' For, as he, Who first contrived to assist the eye with a telescope, did not by that pretend to give sight to the blind, or make any alteration in the eye itself, but only to bring the objects nearer, that they might be viewed more accu rately and distinctly; so neither is it pretended a'by this art to teach those to remember every thing who never could remember any thing; or to make men in an instant skilful in sciences which before they were utterly unacquainted with; but only to enable them to retain, with certainty and exactness, what they have already a general and competent knowledge of: that they may not be obliged upon every occasion to have fresh recourse to their books or maps, or be under the tiresome necessity of reading the same things again and again, still forgetting them as fast as they read them.

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