Number-Forms 83
I give woodcuts of representative specimens of these Forms, and very brief descriptions of them extracted from the letters of my correspondents. Sixty-three other diagrams on a smaller scale will be found in Plates I., II. and III., and two more which are coloured are given in Plate IV.
D. A. “From the very first I have seen numerals up to nearly 200, range themselves always in a particular manner, and
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in thinking of a number it always takes its place in the figure. The more attention I give to the properties of numbers and their interpretations, the less I am troubled with this clumsy framework for them, but it is indelible in my mind’s eye even when for a long time less consciously so. The higher numbers are to me quite abstract and unconnected with a shape. This rough and untidy [1] production is the best I can do towards repre
[1] The engraver took much pains to interpret the meaning of the rather faint but carefully made drawing, by strengthening some of the shades. The result was very very satisfactory, judging from the author’s own view of it, which is as follows :—“ Certainly if the
engraver has been as successful with all the other representations as with that of my shape and its accompaniments, your article must he entirely correct.”
