A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore].

  • Thomas Northmore
Date:
[1799]
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Credit: A quadruplet of inventions / [Thomas Northmore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Let 5943 reprefent the word horje, and let 4 be the fign of the plural number; I would write the word thus, , and pronounce it jive, nine, four, three, in the power of, or under, four. By thefe means eleven or twelve founds would be all that were required, and time and ufe would much abbreviate the pronuncia¬ tion. Thus, Reader, have I briefly laid be¬ fore you the progrefs of my ideas upon this interefting fubjeCt, upon which I have thought it unneceflary to enlarge for reafons already ftated ; but I cannot in juftice conclude without obferving that, fome little time after the publica¬ tion of my fir ft letter in the Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, on reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica, article Cha¬ racter, vol. iv. p. 337, I met with an ex- traCt from the Journal Litteraire, anno 1720, the author of which had propofed •the Arabic, or numerical figures, for LJniverfal Characters. “ The combina¬ tion
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