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BUNO, Johannes

Historische Bilder, darinnen Idea Historia Universalis, eine kurtze summarisch Abbildungen der fürnehmsten Geist- und Weltlichen Geschichte ... und in annehmlichen Bildern also deutlich fürgestellt, daß so eine richtige Ordnung ...
Lüneburg
1672
€700 - €1.200

4to, with 21 copper plates by P. Schormann. The surprising illustrations depict, subdivided in millennia and centuries from ancestor Adam till 1700 A.D., important persons and events in large images shaped like a camel, bear, griffin, knight, house etc. Without the text part. Half vellum binding, marbled boards

"Rare first edition, alongside bible and grammar, one of the mnemonic main works by the Lüneburg educationist J. Buno (1617-97). Buno's method proceeds from the so-called Simonides method: ""The Simonides method thus meant encoding information into memory by conjuring up vivid mental images and then placing them in known locations"". (Umberto Eco, Introduction The Art of Memory, Quaritch, 2004) Ref. Landwehr / Pim van Pagée, 450 jaar geheugenkunst in Beeld, (2007) nr. 20 ; Graesse I, 572"

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