"Numeral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... use of Arabic numerals in any work connected with building" is the date 1445, on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex, though "they were common in MSS. after 1320, and in astronomical Tracts as early as 1290." As it is probable that not a few instances of the employment of the Arabic numeral characters of an earlier date than that at Heathfield are to be met with in different parts of the country, will you permit me to make use of your paper to inquire whether any such are known to any of ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.02.09 • Various
... is well to number each tenon by means of the chisel with a Roman numeral and its corresponding mortise with the same. This will prevent the fitting of one tenon into more than ...
— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part I • H. H. Windsor |
