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Research Topics on: handwriting OR penmanship

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Books on: handwriting OR penmanship

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Journal Articles on: handwriting OR penmanship

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Encyclopedia Articles on: handwriting OR penmanship

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    Calligraphy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...beautiful writing, skilled penmanship practiced as a fine art. See also...Calligraphy In Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. Cursive...declined generally throughout Europe. Penmanship of a relatively inferior sort was...
     
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    Paleography
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Aldus Manutius ; they are said to have been suggested by the handwriting of Petrarch. As the Spencerian script of the 19th cent...document written in it, so one skilled in the history of handwriting can often assign a place and a date to a document of earlier...
     
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    Granjon, Robert
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. He is known especially for his caracteres de civilite, based on a beautiful French handwriting and intended to take the place in France that italic type then held in Italy. The greater legibility of italic caused the...
     
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    Garamond, Claude
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Vergetios). His roman and italic types, however, were innovations in being designed as metal types, not as imitations of handwriting. His roman letter forms won general acceptance in France and elsewhere and were a chief influence in establishing the roman...
     
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    Gray, Elisha
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...patented many electrical devices, most of them having to do with the telegraph . His telautograph (1888) for transmitting handwriting and line drawing was widely used. While experimenting in 1875 with the idea of sending musical notes by wire, as a means...
     

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