# The New Mnemonical Chart and Guide to the Art of Memory/Description of the New Mnemonic Chart

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LETTER II.
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW MNEMONIC CHART.
A practical knowledge of the illustrated Chart must be acquired by careful attention to the following diagrams. First, take a pencil and paper; divide one square into twelve squares, thus:—
| | 0 | |
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |
​14. The Method of Arrangement is derived from a simple plan. Let nine of the twelve squares represent the floor of a room, with a central upper square or entrance lobby—call this the (0) nought square. The two blank squares entirely omit. The first diagram contains ten squares with their arithmetical numbers. The relative position of the figures is always the same in each of the rooms, places, and divisions. Thus 5 is always in the mid-centre.
15. Localisation, or locality, is the name given to the position of the squares; the term place, however, will be found better than locality when speaking of any number. Thus:—the upper square is the 0 locality, say the 0 place. On the far left is locality 1, or the 1st place; in the far centre the 2nd place; and on the far right the 3rd place. To the left centre the 4th place; in the centre the 5th place; and on the right centre the 6th place. On the near left the 7th place; in the near centre the 8th place; and on the near right the 9th place.
16. Plan of the Chart. The illustrated Chart appears like the floor of a room containing the plans of 10 inlaid panelled rooms: each room consists of 10 10 squares. Here 10 squares, multiplied by the 10 places in each room, provide 100 localities for the illustrated objects. Each room upon the Chart occupies the relative position which its numerical place occupies in each room. Thus:— the 1st place in each room is on the far left—so is the plan of the 1st room, as laid down upon the Chart. The 2nd place in each room is the far centre—so is the 2nd room upon the Chart; and so on respectively with every place and room upon the annexed Diagram.
17. The Arithmetical Principle of this Arrangement is thus derived:—
| 0. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. |
| 100. | 10. | 20. | 30. | 40. | 50. | 60. | 70. | 80. | 90. |
| | 100. | 200. | 300. | 400. | 500, | 600. | 700. | 800. | 900. |
The 0 being less than 1, let the 0 room or place always precede room or place 1. After counting 9 places in the 0 room, take the unit 1 and add thereto a 0 for the 10 place, which will be the 0 place in the next or 1st room. The 1st room contains the 10th up to the 19th places; the 2nd room all the 20th places; the 3rd room all the 30th places, and so on. If asked to name the 48th object, instantly think of = the 4th room and the 8th place in the 4th room, which is the 48th object: or, the 82nd object, = the 8th room and the 2nd place.
​Page:The New Mnemonic Chart and Guide to the Art of Memory (Day).djvu/15 ​Page:The New Mnemonic Chart and Guide to the Art of Memory (Day).djvu/16 ​18. Consonants ARE substituted for Figures, and also used as Indicators to the names of the fized localities. In the annexed diagram, the consonants, numbers, and figures are contained in each respective place. Thus for John Kemp, Printer and Bookseller, I readily adopt the figures 62739942142197054, in place of the sounding consonants.
Or, to translate any figures into words, thus:—
0082 = w, n = wan, wane; win, wine: won. 0172 = t, k, n = taken, token; the can, the cane. 1848 = t, v, r, w = the furrow; the wharf.
Add to the consonants any vowels, as a, e, i, o, u, w, or y, and one or several familiar words will instantly be presented to the mind.
20. Familiarisation, or the making of things familiar, secures a fixed place for every object in the room; and to which all other new or strange notions, after being in like manner made familiar, are connected by association. Thus, in the 0 place are the consonants s and c soft, and z. S will indicate the object—Sun. Call it the Sun's place. Add to this object two familiar notions of c and z. Try c = centre and z = zodiac. Say, Sun centre of zodiac. In the 1st place are the consonants t, th, and d; d indicates dame; call it the dame's place. In the 2nd place is the consonant n; n indicates nurse; call it the nurse's place, and so on.
21. Association—is the principle of chaining together—by which the objects in each room or place are more easily remembered. In each separate room the objects are stereotyped upon the brain or memory, thus;—
The sun shone brightly when the dame told her nurse to take the music, rosebush, and lamp to the gentleman's residence, near to the crown hotel, and to bring back a fire-basket and the painting. See engraving—page 8 and diagram—page 16, for illustration of this exercise.
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