Aw: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

nicode@unicode.org Betreff: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs) On 1/4/2016 1:33 PM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I looked all the pages of the 1809 edition of _Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium_  https://archive.org/stream/bub_g

Re: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

Le mar. 5 janv. 2016 10:13, "Jörg Knappen" a écrit : > I have looked up some printed sources and I agree with Michael Everson and > Frédéric Grosshans that the > beast in question is a variant of the greek letter tau (capital or > lowercase). > The identification to τ is from

Aw: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

e> An: "Asmus Freytag (t)" <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> Cc: unicode@unicode.org Betreff: Aw: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs) I have looked up some printed sources and I agree with Michael Everson and Frédéric Grosshans that the beast in question is a

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

And given the context of use on the document, where it is a measurement of time in seconds (it is a mean daily time drift, if you don't read German), some variants of T/Tau is certainly a best option. The other variables in the additive formula were also related to time and where also based on

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

I have looked at both the collected works of Gauss and at the English version of the Theoria Motus, in order to see what a later editor made of this symbol. In the Werke the symbol ’7’ continues to be used : C F Gauss, Werke, Vol. 7, ed. E J Schering, Gotha, 1871; § 77, M = N + n’7’ ̶ Π.

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/5/2016 1:22 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le mar. 5 janv. 2016 10:13, "Jörg Knappen" > a écrit : I have looked up some printed sources and I agree with Michael Everson and Frédéric Grosshans that the beast in question is a variant of

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:54, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote: > > On 1/4/2016 7:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: >> Excellent! >> Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples >> of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. > >

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 10:41 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Certainly it does look more like a very common variant of “tau” than “pi” Variant of uppercase tau? A./

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

: Asmus Freytag (t) Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 7:58 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs) On 1/4/2016 10:41 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Certainly it does look more like a very common variant of “tau” than “pi” Variant

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 12:15 AM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century:  

Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century:   http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284483/how-do-i-typeset-this-symbol-possibly-astronomical   images are here:  

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 4 Jan 2016, at 21:33, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > The Greek letters in particular have a pretty standard shape, and I don't see > why this symbol would be the only geek letter using a fancy cursive shape. > Even the Latin letters used standard shapes (

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

he first and other lines > a hooked version of tau. So I withdraw my suggestion of pi. > Raymond > > *From:* Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-...@ix.netcom.com> > *Sent:* Monday, January 04, 2016 7:58 PM > *To:* unicode@unicode.org > *Subject:* Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointi

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

Le lun. 4 janv. 2016 à 09:18, "Jörg Knappen" a écrit : > Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math > printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century: > > >

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 4 Jan 2016, at 08:15, Jörg Knappen wrote: > > Here is a report of a rather strange beast occurring in historical math > printing (work of C. F. Gauß) in thw 19th century: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284483/how-do-i-typeset-this-symbol-possibly-astronomical

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

nt: Monday, January 04, 2016 7:58 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: Turned Capital letter L

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

The sign described as like 7 is surely a cursive form of π. The form used by Gauss (Disquisitio de elementis ellipticis Palladis) is much the same as that shown in manuals of Greek Palaeography as a cursive π. This is given by E.P. Thompson in two works, An Introduction to Greek and Latin

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

Excellent! Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. > On 4 Jan 2016, at 15:38, Raymond Mercier wrote: > > The sign described as like 7 is surely a cursive form of π. The

Re: Turned Capital letter L (pointing to the left, with serifs)

On 1/4/2016 7:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: Excellent! Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. Admitting that a Greek letter inherently makes more