The Advancement of Learning

words removed
83,985
marks left
12,979
words a sentence
43.2
most used mark
,

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: Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes. More twins

Francis Bacon on the shelf

3 books by Francis Bacon are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Francis Bacon as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Francis Bacon's punctuation is closest to Jonathan Swift's.

Francis Bacon's average fingerprint

Francis Bacon on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFrancis Bacon's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons16.318.87.2
Commas86.298.076.6
Colons4.84.01.6
Exclamation marks0.10.12.8
Question marks0.90.63.7
Words per sentence43.234.117.0
Dialogue4%2%22%

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

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