Le lun. 4 janv. 2016 à 09:18, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> 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: > > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/284483/how-do-i-typeset-this-symbol-possibly-astronomical > > images are here: > > http://www.archive.org/stream/abhandlungenmet00gausrich#page/n129/mode/2up > http://i.stack.imgur.com/57fN3.png > > It looks like a big digit "7" or like a turned letter "L". In the accepted > answer it was identified with the Tironian note et; an identification > I'd dispute because the Tironian note Et is usually smaller in size than a > capital latin letter. > I don’t know what the glyph is, but I doubt that a digit or tironian et makes sense semantically. Since it corresponds to an angular measure (the daily angular displacement of a celestial body), the unicode character correspnding to it is likely ⦢ U+29A2 TURNED ANGLE Frédéric
