retained, including inconsistencies, dubious, unusual and archaic
spellings, mixed languages (all including proper and geographical
names), etc. (The absence of) accents and other diacriticals and other
errors (in particular in non-English words and phrases) have not been
corrected either. Factual errors (including dates and names),
contradictions, duplications, repetitions, ambiguities and debatable
calculations, formulas, definitions and descriptions have not been
individually noted or corrected, but have been copied verbatim. Except
in the Index of Illustrations, the occasional mistakes in the
alphabetical order of the articles have not been corrected.
Plates and illustrations: the spelling and/or language of the captions
may differ significantly from those in the body of the text and the
Index to Illustrations. Some captions were largely illegible, and have
been reconstructed based on the Index of Illustrations or on the main
text where possible. Several of the individual illustrations lack a
caption; only when it is clear what the caption should be (i.e., a
clear, unambiguous illustration that is listed in the Index of
Illustrations) has a caption been inserted, as listed below. Some
illustrations have been rotated or otherwise re-arranged for better
readability or visibility.
Changes made
Several obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been
corrected silently.
Footnotes have been moved to directly under the paragraph to which
they belong.
Some tables and mathematical formulas have been re-arranged or
re-aligned for better readability or moved to separate lines. In some
cases the italics mark-up (_) has been applied to groups of letters
and symbols rather than to individual letters or symbols to improve
readability.
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caliber 10,236 inches changed to caliber 10.236 inches