Last modified: 2024-11-05 23:09:27
< 2024-11-04 2024-11-07 >Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-keeper
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-PBA-01740/1
This wants to be turned into an actual readable PDF, instead of a series of pictures in no particular order, and interspersing English and French.
So the plan is to download all the pages and combine them into a PDF. Maybe include the French as well but put it at the end.
In 2024-10-19 I said "after each page was scanned I rotated and cropped it in Gimp, and then put them all together as a PDF" - but sadly no info on how I did that. I recall it was with imagemagick convert? Also I used an Adobe PDF optimiser to shrink the file size.
Just:
$ convert *.jpeg foo.pdf
And then use https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/compress-pdf.html
The Cambridge site says:
Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-NC 3.0)
It looks like there are a few chapters (?) in this book (?) that are only available in French, that's disappointing.
There is also a note on the inside cover saying it lacks pages 1 and 2 of the preface. That's also disappointing!
I might be able to transcribe the French and get a machine translation.
"w" is typeset as "vv", I wonder if "w" was conceived to be two consecutive "v"'s at the time, or if that is to save having to make "w"'s?
A lot of the "s"'s are "f"'s instead.
I can see ligatures for:
The first page is marked MDCCLXVII, which means 1767.
I started writing some commentary on this, but didn't get finished. The post is at 4400 words so far including the transcription.
I printed a replacement handle for the laundry basket in TPU today. I bumped the temperature up on the default "TPU for AMS" profile from 230 deg. C to 245 deg. C. The surface finish got noticeably worse, and I noticed that the suggested printing temperature on the side of the spool is "190 - 230", so I probably won't do it again. I expect the layer adhesion is improved though.
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