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1631 W. Watts tr. St. Augustine Confessions x. viii. 590 I come to these fields and spacious palaces of my Memory [L. campos et lata praetoria memoriae].]

1984 J. D. Spence (title) The memory palace of Matteo Ricci.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. c18 [Matteo Ricci] showed the Chinese how to construct a ‘memory palace’—an imaginary palace in which they were to picture successive rooms and apartments housing images that represented different types of knowledge.

1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. ii. 33 There are..11 tall dioramas, designed like pop-up cartoons and called ‘memory palaces’, each of which illustrates one of Mr. Moore's design principles.

1992 Boston Globe (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Living section) 25 The Opera House is the kind of memory palace that gives a town its selfhood. It has..become an architectural scrapbook of local history.

1993 Observer (Nexis) 14 Nov. (Life Suppl.) 4 Maxis's idea was to develop a programme that used virtual space to bring different sources of information together into manageable forms. Fans of William Gibson's cyberpunk SF novel Neuromancer might see The Metaphor Mixer as a rudimentary version of his ‘cyberspace’... Others might see a modern version of the ‘memory palaces’ constructed by medieval thinkers.

1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. vii. 26 Mr. Nooteboom..appears in these essays as a dreamer for whom every monument, every work of art transforms itself into a memory palace that unlocks Spain's history.