Three books on Short-writing 1659, 1674 & 1698
Three books on Short-writing 1659, 1674 & 1698
Shorthand’s Impact In 1588 Timothy Bright published his Characterie; An Arte of Shorte, Swifte and Secrete Writing by Character which introduced a system with 500 arbitrary symbols each representing one word. Bright’s book was followed by a number of others, including John Willis’s Art of Stenography in 1602, Edmond Willis’s An abbreviation of writing by character in 1618, and Thomas Shelton’s…
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