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An early description of this mnemonic stack is given by William Frederick Pinchbeck in // | An early description of this mnemonic stack is given by William Frederick Pinchbeck in // | ||
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+ | Related stacks, using a phrase to aid in remembering a non-arithmetic sequence of card values, repeated four times, date back at least to the early 1500s; e.g., one in Latin recorded in Richard Hill's Commonplace Book, 1536 (discovered by Marco Pusterla; see //Ye Olde Magic Mag//, Vol. 2 No. 3, June 2016, p. 3). There is evidence that Hill drew this stack and the trick it makes possible from earlier manuscripts, | ||
See also: [[cards: | See also: [[cards: |