The Rise and Fall of Meter

Figure 1. Illustration of the “artificial memory” method, applied to the regents of
England. Richard Grey. Memoria Technica; or, a new method of artificial memory,
applied to, and exemplified in chronolog y, history, geography, astronomy. Also Jewish,
Grecian, and Roman coins, weights, and measures, &c. With tables proper to the respec-
tive sciences, and memorial lines adapted to each table. London: Printed for John
Stagg in Westminster Hall, 1737, p. 15.