Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

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2,396
words a sentence
79.8
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift. More twins

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It's the only book by René Descartes on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, René Descartes's punctuation is closest to Thucydides's.

Thucydides's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons9.57.2
Commas76.676.6
Colons1.51.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.33.7
Words per sentence79.817.0
Dialogue0%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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