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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

As can be seen in Table 4 below, they make a total of eight texts, two authors per<br />

subperiod. The texts from E1 (1500 to 1570) are a medical text by Thomas Vicary and a<br />

work on geometry by Robert Record. Texts from E2 are William Clowes’ medical treatise<br />

and two works on geometry and cosmography by Thomas Blundevile. In turn, the E3<br />

period is represented by Robert Hooke’s Micrographia and The life and work of Robert<br />

Hooke (1665) and Robert Boyle’s Electricity & Magnetism (1675-1676).<br />

Table 4. Number of words and texts analyzed in PPCEME<br />

Period Year Title Author Words<br />

E1 1548 The anatomie of the bodie of man Vicary, 13,059<br />

(1500-<br />

1570) 1551 The path-way to knowledge, containing the first<br />

Thomas<br />

Record, 13,974<br />

principles of geometrie<br />

Robert<br />

E2 1597 A briefe description of the tables of the three Blundevile, 13,763<br />

(1570-<br />

1640)<br />

speciall right lines belonging to a circle, called<br />

signes, lines tangent, and lines secant /<br />

A plaine treatise of the first principles of<br />

cosmographie, and specially of the Spheare,<br />

representing the shape of the whole world<br />

Thomas<br />

1602 Treatise for the artificiall cure of struma Clowes, 14,984<br />

William<br />

E3 1665 The life and work of Robert Hooke/<br />

Hooke, 9,763<br />

(1640-<br />

1710) 1675-<br />

Micrographia<br />

Electricity & magnetism<br />

Robert<br />

Boyle, 13,656<br />

1676<br />

Robert<br />

Total 79,199<br />

From EMEMT, texts were selected only from the categories of remedy books,<br />

surgical treatises and academic treatises. The intention was to obtain data from texts<br />

belonging to different writing traditions and intended for different audiences, on the<br />

assumption that differences in the use and origin of the nominalizations employed might<br />

thus be revealed. It must be noted that there is no category “remedy books” as such in the<br />

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