Memory in Historical Perspective The Literature Before Ebbinghaus
In 1885 Herman Ebbinghaus showed the world how the scientific method could be applied to the elusive phenomena of memory. But what of work on memory before Ebbinghaus? The long ascendance of the Ebbinghaus tradition has eclipsed the contributions of scholars before Ebbinghaus. Memory in Historical P...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Recent Research in Psychology
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Table of Contents:
- Note to the Reader
- Writings on Memory
- Hesiod
- Heraclitus
- Aristophanes
- Anonymous (Dialexeis)
- Anonymous (Mnemosyne)
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Cicero
- Anonymous (Ad Herennium)
- Pliny
- Quintillian
- Plotinus
- Augustine
- Martianus Capella
- Thomas Aquinas
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Montaigne
- Francis Bacon
- David Hume
- Thomas Reid
- Immanuel Kant
- Samuel Rogers
- Thomas Brown
- William Burnham
- Appendix: Sources on the History of Memory
- References
- Indexes: Subject Index
- Keyword Index
- Name Index