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A15481 The art of memory so far forth as it dependeth vpon places and idea's[sic] Written first in Latine, by Iohn Willis Bachelour in Diuinitie: and now published in English by the said author, with such alternations thereof as seemed needful.; Mnemonica, sive reminiscendi ars. Book 3. English Willis, John, d. 1625. 1621 (1621) STC 25749; ESTC S105364 24,465 115

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