Latin and English. It is merely a republication of part of Brux's Simonides Redivivus.
The mnemonical essays published on the continent from 1620 to 1702, were principally by Azevedo, Carbonel, Cuirot, Dannhawer, Belot, and Brancaccio:— several anonymous systems were put forth also during this period. Erhardt's Ars Memoriæ appeared in 1715, and Morhof and Father Feyjoo, have, both, dissertations expressly upon the subject; the one in his Polyhistor, and the other in his Cartas Eruditas y Curiosas.
From the time of Feyjoo (1781) to 1806, (if we except a German translation of Schenckel by Klüber) the local and symbolical memory seems to have lain completely dormant. In the Philosophical Magazine for December, 1806, there is the following notice:—
"A new branch of science is begun to be studied in Germany. It is the science called by the antients mnemonica, or the art of memory. We find in Herodotus, that it was carefully taught and practised in Egypt, whence it was transplanted into Greece. This historian attributes the invention of it to Simonides; but this opinion is refuted in a dissertation published by M. Mongenstern, of Dorpat, upon mnemonica. He there asserts, that this science is more intimately connected with the Egyptian hieroglyphics than
