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Re: Odyssey Orbit



At 11:01 PM 10/25/2001 -0700, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
Another memorism evidently -- my latin teacher (ca. 1952) said a
gnomonic device was an aid to memory. It's a stretch to go from the
sundial that knows the time?

I think the spelling for this is "mnemonic" which is the adjective form
relating to mnemonics ("a technique of improving the memory"--Webster's
Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary).

Richard Bowman