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fchopin on June 26, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Newton Papers: Newton's Waste Book

What is the purpose of the drawings of hands, e.g. pg. 61?

CamDigLib on June 27, 2016 [–]

They are manicules, a punctuation mark to indicate a note, see more about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)

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