Apian 1550

Apian, Petrus (1550), Cosmographia ​ECHO, ​New ECHO

Part of WO3. Sent with DESpecs version 1.1.2.

Sent: yes/date. Returned: yes (2009-02-04), ​raw text, raw text in trac​.

1. First Analysis

Difficulties

• long index/toc-like table

Special Instructions

2. Questions From Formax

Q

A

3. Analysis of the Result

Findings

• Used again subscript tags for superscript text:

  Sanguine<_>9</_>, fulmine<_>9</_>
  

• Typd indavertent i in italics (​Typesetter's fault)
• Used one single @ (pe@terutrum) for a ​group of unreadable characters.

• This book contains volvelles. Rotatable paper discs (cf. small image on preceding or following page that holds the axis): ​here, ​here, ​here and ​here. A ​blog post on Apian's volvelles.

Recommendation

4. Post-Processing

• The tag for ​inline image was moved out of the line to the subsequent line. The gaps in the following lines (line # arum and fi # nem were changed to linearum and finem.