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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

PPCEME provides comprehensive metadata (biographical information on the<br />

author, date of publication, edition(s) used, etc.) on each individual text, as can be seen in<br />

Table 2 below:<br />

Table 2. Information provided by PPCEME for Boyle’s Electricity & Magnetism<br />

Author<br />

Boyle, Robert<br />

Birthdate b. 1627, d. 1691<br />

Filename<br />

boyle.e3<br />

Manuscript<br />

n/a<br />

Date of composition 1675-1676<br />

Genre<br />

SCIENCE OTHER<br />

Edition<br />

Gunther, Robert William Theodore (ed.). 1927 (facsimile).<br />

Electricity & magnetism, 1675-6. Old Ashmolean Reprints,<br />

7. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<br />

Sample Exhaustive sample of Gunther 1927.<br />

1.1E-7.27E (Penn 1),<br />

8.1E-38.30E (Helsinki),<br />

1.1M-20.24M (Penn 2)<br />

Remarks<br />

Supplemented by boylecol.e3.<br />

The book consists of two parts, each numbered from p. 1 and<br />

devoted to electricity and magnetism, respectively. Page<br />

numbers followed by "E" and "M" are from the first and<br />

second parts of the book, respectively.<br />

This information is relevant for the classification of nominals according to the<br />

variables analyzed. Furthermore, all texts contain identification codes which contain<br />

information about subdivisions, line numbers and so on, as in (101) below:<br />

(101) (CLOWES-E2-P1,7.59) The same being tolde mee, me thought it<br />

was a strange alternation: (CLOWES-E2-P1,7.60) howebeit, I did<br />

take their good speeches very kindly, (CLOWES-E2-P1,7.601) and<br />

so would haue done still, if it had pleased them to continue in the<br />

same good opinion of me, or to haue bin silent.<br />

However, these identification codes will not be used in order to unify criteria. The<br />

EMEMT texts were not used as a whole, but only roughly the first 5,000 words (see<br />

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