To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold

By: Philipp Blom
A Theater of Memories:

• The Theater of memories was created by Giulio Camillo. He was a philosopher whose explorations of human memory led him to construct a “memory theater” that supposably possessed magical powers. Inside this theater was stored all human knowledge. The theatre itself refers to mnemonic techniques called “The art of memory,” 

https://symbolreader.net/2016/07/08/giulio-camillo-and-his-theatre-of-memory/

Camillo's Theater of Memory consisted of seven tiers, divided into seven isles, and fronted by seven columns, located in a semi circle. 

Once it was divided up it created 49 areas each were associated with a symbolic figure of mythology

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/magnus.html

Places of memorization and artificial memory idea flourished in the middle ages. Two people who analyzed a propagated this method were Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas

known as Albert the Great, he was a scholar, philosopher, bishop, teacher, and doctor of the Church.

Magnus is one of the reasons for how the theater of memories came about with his teachings of memorization and artificial memory Camillo used that and expanded on his ideas.

https://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Fludd.html

• Robert Fludd created a theater that was possibly inspired by Camillo. He named his theater “Theatrum Orbi” which means world or globe theater. Using Camillios original ideas Fludd theater represented man's place in the universe and how the art of memory impacted that
• This image depicts the correspondence between the Human and the Universe
• Humans were thought to contain essences of all other parts of the universe. Fludd proved this wrong with his research and Camillios teachings.