On 1/4/2016 1:33 PM, Frédéric Grosshans
wrote:
The problem is that he used capital Tau, which, in most fonts, looks precisely like capital Latin T. So, he used an alternate shape, the cursive one, which would have been familiar to him based on the fact that he probably studied Greek as part of his education, pretty standard subject at the time and even a hundred years later in upper level schools in Hamburg and elsewhere in Germany (and he would have seen and reproduced handwritten forms, not just printed ones). No, an angle would have two straight lines. A Greek letter has, overall, a much higher probability of being used for a variable than almost any other symbol (the one non-letter symbol (Ascending node) is one that you say is still standard in astronomy - wheras any quick search of the literature of the 19th century shows that no symbol is consistently used for the "avery daily angle". For all of these reasons, I find the suggestion of U+29A2 unconvincing. A./
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