Girl - Able to Perceive Moons of Saturn
- From: Rishi Giovanni Gatti <absolutelyinvincible@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:14:39 -0700 (PDT)
[...The extraordinary memory of primitive people has been attributed
to the fact that owing to the absence of any convenient means of
making written records they had to depend upon their memories, which
were strengthened accordingly; but in view of the known facts about
the relation of memory to eyesight it is more reasonable to suppose
that the retentive memory of primitive man was due to the same cause
as his keen vision, namely, a mind at rest.
The primitive memory as well as primitive keenness of vision have been
found among civilized people, and if the necessary tests had been made
it would doubtless have been found that they always occur together, as
they did in a case which recently came under my observation. The
subject was a child of ten with such marvelous eyesight that she could
see the moons of Jupiter with the naked eye, a fact which was
demonstrated by her drawing a diagram of these satellites which
exactly corresponded to the diagrams made by persons who had used a
telescope. Her memory was equally remarkable. She could recite the
whole content of a book after reading it, as Lord Macauley is said to
have done, and she learned more Latin in a few days without a teacher
than her sister who had six diopters of myopia had been able to do in
several years. She remembered five years afterward what she ate at a
restaurant, she recalled the name of the waiter. the number of the
building and the street in which it stood. She also remembered what
she wore on this occasion and what every one else in the party wore.
The same was true of every other event which had awakened her interest
in any way, and it was a favorite amusement in her family to ask her
what the menu had been and what people had worn on particular
occasions...]
- Dr. W.H. Bates, "Vision And Education", September 1919
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