Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, etc. Also Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, &c. With tables proper to the respective sciences; and memorial lines adapted to each table / [Anon].

  • Grey, Richard, 1694-1771.
Date:
1730
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Credit: Memoria technica: or, a new method of artificial memory, applied to and exemplified in chronology, history, geography, astronomy, etc. Also Jewish, Grecian and Roman coins, weights and measures, &c. With tables proper to the respective sciences; and memorial lines adapted to each table / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    her, the Po, the Nilc, the Don or Tanais, the NiESTer, the NiEPer or Boryjlhenes. Each of thefe is fuppofed to carry down ten Times as much Wa¬ ter as the Thames: Not that any of them is fo great, but fo to allow for the fmall Rivers that run into that Sea. Now the Water of the Thamcs be¬ ing computed at about 20.300,000 Tons as above, the nine Rivers aforefaid each will amount to 203.000,000; in all 1827.000,000 Tons. Th^m-ez-igthT Ib-rho-ti-po Nil-don Nieft-nieper- akepmiW. The Water of the Thames is computed thus: ’Tis fuppofed to run at Kingfton Bridge, where the Tide reaches not, at the Rate of two Miles an Hour, which is 48 Miles in 24 Hours *, 48 Miles are equal to 84,480 Yards. [ Mi/if — yzko-feiz] which being multiplied by 300 YArds, (the PRofile of Water at KiNgfton Bridge, where ’tis fuppofed to be 100 Yards broad and 3 deep) produces 25.344,000 Cu- bick yards of Water [Yako-feiz per ig —Yel-tfoth] which are equal to 20.000,000 Tons. [_ez-igthion\ Mifk = Yakofeiz (Kin-pr/^J Yako-fe'iz per ig =Yel- tfoth — ez-igthiou. The Velocity of Sounds Lights See. A Cannon Bullet, (Globus tormento bellico emifliis) in a SECond, moves 204 Yards [In-fec Glob-yar^Zfl] Light (Lumen) in a Second moves 200,000 Mnes [Lu-milegth] Sound (Sonus) moves in a Second 1142 Feet (PEDes) [Son-ped-movettf^/>] A Cannon Bullet moves a Mile in 17 HAlf Se- conds. [ Glob-m-tf/ha-fec] Souwd