Page talk:Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light (1878 manuscript)/4

indistinct word
This page contains the first word in which Michelson's handwriting is not crystal clear. At the end of the 7th line from the top of the page, the word "principal" is running off the right side of the paper, with the "a" quite small and the "l" partly missing. I believe that the "l" went over the edge of Michelson's paper, but it may only go over the edge of my photograph (other lines suggest that the photograph scrupulously covers the entire manuscript page). I am highly confident of the word, which occurs again in the 15th line, also as a modifier of "focus." --Mike O&#39;D 03:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Michelson's quote marks
Michelson's left and right quote marks look essentially the same, both comprising two short parallel lines sloping from upper right to lower left. I have rendered them as the ambiguous double quote character, rather than as left and right quotes. The right quote mark is sometimes nearly above a comma or period, but I can always distinguish the fact that it is placed slightly to the right of the lower punctuation. --Mike O&#39;D 03:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)