The Art of Memory

This article is about the book by Frances A. Yates. For the general topic known as "Ars memoriae" or "the Art of Memory", see Art of memory. For the album by John Zorn and Fred Frith, see The Art of Memory (album).

The Art of Memory is a 1966 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical period of Simonides of Ceos in Ancient Greece to the Renaissance era of Giordano Bruno, ending with Gottfried Leibniz and the early emergence of the scientific method in the 17th century.

The Art of Memory

Author	Frances A. Yates
Language	English
Publisher	Routledge and Kegan Paul
Publication date	1966
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (book)
Pages	400
ISBN	978-0-226-95001-3
OCLC	42905743
Preceded by	Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, its publication was "an important stimulus to the flowering of experimental research on imagery and memory."^[1]

Modern Library included The Art of Memory on its list of 100 best nonfiction books.^[2]