“This is an analog, proto-computer to determine which characters created by Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) appear in which stories or novels of The Human Comedy. In 1833, after Balzac had already started writing this collection of 90+ novels and…
“Atlas of Punctuation displays the distribution of all end-of-sentence punctuation found in fourteen books. The punctuation for each book is consolidated onto a single sheet, representing in one plane the coordinates of all the verbal boundaries of…
Master printer and bookseller Edward Whitchurch (d.1562), an ardent adherent of Reformation doctrines, had already associated himself with Richard Grafton to circulate Matthew's [English] Bible printed at Antwerp. In 1538 he and Grafton gave…
