Saturday, July 20, 2019
My dream job in 1619
A while back I got tickled by a question seen on Twitter: If you were transported back to 1919, what could you do? That was easy. My skills are more suitable for 1919 than 2019.
Well, what about 1619? Here it is.
Scholarly writing in the 1600s and 1700s easily mixed English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and all sorts of other alphabets. I want to be the typesetter! Knowing enough about all of those languages to proofread and find the characters in an existing font. Engraving the matrices and casting a new font if the manuscript required a language that wasn't already in our cases.
Dream job.
This page is from a 1641 book on codes and ciphers by Wilkins, which added cipher tables and symbols to the fun.
Scholarly writing in the 1600s and 1700s easily mixed English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and all sorts of other alphabets. I want to be the typesetter! Knowing enough about all of those languages to proofread and find the characters in an existing font. Engraving the matrices and casting a new font if the manuscript required a language that wasn't already in our cases.
Dream job.
This page is from a 1641 book on codes and ciphers by Wilkins, which added cipher tables and symbols to the fun.
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