TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.

The transcriber produced the cover image and hereby assigns it to the public domain.

Original spelling and grammar have been generally retained, with some exceptions noted below.

Original printed page numbers are shown in the right like this: {52}.

Footnotes have been relabeled 1–32.

Large curly brackets ‘}’ used as graphic devices to combine information over two or more lines of text have been eliminated, restructuring as necessary to retain the original meaning.

There are many uncommon unicode characters in this book; specialized fonts may be necessary to view them all in the simple text edition. Images of many of them are substituted in the html, epub & mobi editions. Examples—

• On page 91, the mathematical sign for “The difference between” is shown in the original book as a glyph like a tilde, reproduced here in the html/epub/mobi editions as an image from the printed book. The text edition of this transcription uses ‘≏’ (U+224F DIFFERENCE BETWEEN).
• On page 92, the glyph for “Factorial sign” is shown in the original book as a right angle, roughly L shaped, with a “5” nestled into the angle (the printed example means specifically “factorial of 5”). This form is evidently obsolete, and the transcriber failed to find a Unicode method of representation. So in the text edition the code “[∟5]” is substituted, while in the html/epub/mobi editions, an image is used.
• In the phrase on page 95 "one of those figures, CIↃ, CD, ∞, uncial m", the original book showed an uncial m, reproduced here in the html/epub/mobi editions as an image. The simple text edition of this transcription substitutes ‘ⅿ’ (U+217F, SMALL ROMAN NUMERAL ONE THOUSAND) instead. This glyph recurs on page 98.

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Page 60. The second paragraph was printed so as to look approximately like the following: “[ . . . ] II Sam. 1 : 2–6; 2 : 8–12.”, namely, with equal space on either side of the colon in the first instance and unequal spaces in the second instance. This transcription makes it equal spaces, U+200A (hair space).

Pages 65–92. The chapter titled AB­BREV­IA­TIONS contains several sections: in order, “DATES”, “PRO­PER NAMES”, “TITLES”, “6. COM­MER­CIAL AB­BREV­IA­TIONS”, “7. GEO­GRAPH­I­CAL AB­BREV­IA­TIONS”, &c. These are given html heading level code “<h3>” in this transcription. Unfortunately, there were no numbered headings corresponding to numbers 1–5 in the original book, so these are missing from this transcription as well. (There were and remain paragraphs numbered 1–5, with no headings, but those all belong to the section “TITLES”)

Page 149. In the original table “Weights and Measures”, the first and fifth columns are not directly related to the other three, and arguably do not belong in the table. Therefore, these columns have been stripped out of the table and recast as a nested list ahead of the table.

Page 152. The phrase “1 lite” was changed to “1 liter”.

Page 168, Index entry “Compounds, with:”; a pointer to page 50 was added for subentry ‘ “in” ’.