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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899, Grevel, H, Einsle, Anton, 1848-1897 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 152
ters, the number of points and turns of the compass that each Geoffroy Tory. 133 one requires. The most amusing part of this curious treatiseis his short academical preface, where, with sportive fancy,the great pubHsher studies the orthography of his time, andexclaims against the coiners of new… … Fig. 82.—Emblematical letter Y, taken fronthe Clmmpflenry of Geoffroy Tory. indicates that its author was possessed of good sense, which,unhappily, all his contemporaries were not. He added to his theories a number of designs of geometricalletters, technically considered, but he was afterwards…
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