This reminds me of Mary Carruthers’s comparison of characteristics people emphasize when they talk about Einstein vs. Thomas Aquinas and the way in which memory palaces played an integral role in not just recall but composition for medieval thinkers. Unfortunately, it’s too much text to copy, but I’ve taken screenshots of the relevant pages and uploaded them here.
This reminds me of Mary Carruthers’s comparison of characteristics people emphasize when they talk about Einstein vs. Thomas Aquinas and the way in which memory palaces played an integral role in not just recall but composition for medieval thinkers. Unfortunately, it’s too much text to copy, but I’ve taken screenshots of the relevant pages and uploaded them here.