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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 9 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 75366 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Sir 4 Royal 4 Professor 4 Mr. 4 John 4 England 4 Dr. 3 University 3 Tycho 3 Rome 3 Newton 3 London 3 Kepler 3 Herschel 3 Galileo 3 College 3 Cambridge 2 time 2 star 2 great 2 Washington 2 Venus 2 Society 2 Saturn 2 Prof. 2 October 2 Observatory 2 New 2 Miss 2 Mars 2 Laplace 2 Halley 2 Greenwich 2 God 2 August 2 Airy 1 world 1 work 1 planet 1 observation 1 new 1 motion 1 moon 1 man 1 like 1 light 1 life 1 illustration 1 egyptian 1 earth Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1992 time 1511 year 1235 star 1201 man 1098 work 1012 day 985 observation 879 earth 813 planet 727 telescope 726 sun 614 way 582 life 579 place 559 letter 545 moon 543 part 529 astronomer 518 motion 496 subject 488 instrument 462 discovery 460 body 459 light 449 fact 444 system 434 one 434 distance 421 object 411 observatory 409 world 408 point 408 book 404 night 403 eye 398 room 393 foot 392 matter 390 science 389 course 388 thing 388 law 385 friend 382 hour 381 result 379 hand 377 position 373 paper 359 question 342 case Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3460 _ 588 Observatory 571 Rick 571 Mr. 532 Royal 493 Mr 450 HERSCHEL 436 Herschel 435 Sir 401 Cambridge 362 Newton 341 Professor 338 Airy 310 Miss 306 Greenwich 304 Scotty 294 Tycho 289 June 276 Society 267 Galileo 260 Dr. 246 University 232 John 225 Kepler 217 England 212 London 204 Mitchell 203 Lord 203 Jupiter 202 May 201 College 200 c. 194 R. 191 Hassan 187 Venus 185 William 185 July 174 Board 172 Soc 172 Astronomer 168 Phil 166 heavens 159 Report 155 Dec. 150 Mrs. 150 Jan. 149 Saturn 145 Nov. 144 George 142 Hamilton Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 7687 i 7548 it 6730 he 2512 we 1991 they 1802 him 1598 you 1567 me 1166 them 906 she 604 us 490 himself 282 her 207 myself 170 itself 120 themselves 108 one 72 herself 39 ourselves 35 yours 30 mine 29 yourself 22 ''s 20 his 19 ours 9 theirs 4 youssef 4 hers 3 thee 3 je 2 ye 1 thyself 1 thou''d 1 them.--the 1 stars!--they 1 oneself 1 inn 1 il 1 determined.--a 1 crystals,"--they 1 blaine 1 ay 1 airy.--he 1 ''em Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 27018 be 8467 have 2141 do 1973 make 1648 see 1317 say 1221 know 1190 go 1162 take 1095 find 951 give 910 come 795 think 691 seem 630 write 568 look 566 get 544 show 462 appear 460 call 457 tell 446 become 439 follow 438 ask 435 leave 419 receive 367 begin 358 use 349 observe 344 bring 339 send 337 believe 334 pass 330 suppose 329 move 319 read 294 feel 286 work 285 lead 281 hear 280 put 275 carry 273 live 271 discover 266 keep 265 hold 261 speak 258 publish 250 turn 247 determine Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4244 not 1771 so 1551 great 1377 very 1207 more 1116 other 1081 then 1073 first 1030 only 1001 now 981 much 844 most 829 up 819 well 784 out 749 little 712 same 658 good 630 as 581 long 577 such 574 also 565 new 557 many 523 old 517 even 507 however 504 small 503 own 489 still 466 never 466 far 420 few 416 last 400 large 391 thus 389 scientific 381 high 376 ever 365 here 357 once 355 down 345 there 344 always 343 too 343 again 335 just 319 on 313 almost 303 quite Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 192 good 146 great 142 least 117 most 89 high 35 eld 35 early 32 slight 30 large 29 near 21 small 21 old 20 Most 17 low 14 late 11 young 11 simple 11 bright 10 fine 10 bad 8 big 7 faint 7 easy 6 strong 6 long 6 deep 6 dear 5 warm 5 hard 5 able 4 proud 4 odd 4 noble 4 minute 4 keen 4 furth 3 true 3 strange 3 short 3 sad 3 rare 3 quick 3 pure 3 manif 3 lofty 3 lively 3 heavy 3 grave 3 grand 3 full Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 727 most 30 well 29 least 3 fast 2 long 1 worst 1 richest 1 quick 1 hard 1 eldest 1 brightest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 pebareka@iexpress.net.au 1 pamhall@www.edu Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 rick did n''t 4 _ know _ 4 earth is not 4 rick looked up 4 stars were not 4 work was so 3 _ is _ 3 moon is now 3 motion was not 3 rick did so 3 rick looked around 3 rick was n''t 3 telescope had not 3 time goes on 3 work was not 3 work went on 2 _ is down 2 _ is level 2 _ is not 2 _ is up 2 astronomer is mad 2 astronomer took up 2 body is not 2 body was so 2 discovery was immediately 2 earth ''s axis 2 earth did not 2 earth is still 2 earth was not 2 earth were flat 2 instrument was first 2 letter was anonymous 2 life was not 2 men are not 2 moon was actually 2 motion is not 2 motion is perfectly 2 planet is approximately 2 planets were not 2 rick did not 2 rick said soberly 2 rick thought so 2 rick was satisfied 2 rick was sure 2 stars are faint 2 stars are not 2 stars are so 2 stars were visible 2 sun did not 2 sun is about Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ had no experience 1 _ is not _ 1 _ is not so 1 astronomer had no hope 1 astronomer has no fear 1 astronomers had no idea 1 bodies are not spherical 1 bodies is no longer 1 bodies is not only 1 body is not only 1 body is not proportional 1 day are not generally 1 earth is not at 1 earth was not flat 1 letters are not essays 1 life was not wholly 1 men are not only 1 moon is not discoverable 1 motion is not really 1 motion was not uniform 1 motion was not well 1 observations give no indication 1 observatory was not yet 1 place had no terrors 1 places are not very 1 planet was not circular 1 planets were not circles 1 stars are not too 1 stars are not visible 1 stars is not very 1 stars showed no parallax 1 stars were not alone 1 stars were not attendant 1 subject is not half 1 sun is not yet 1 sun was not less 1 telescope had not entirely 1 telescopes having no distinctive 1 telescopes were not powerful 1 time was not ripe 1 time was not yet 1 times were not favorable 1 work is not less 1 work is not only 1 work was no greater 1 work was not only 1 years have not yet A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 10655 author = Airy, George Biddell title = Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy date = keywords = Admiralty; Airy; April; Astr; Astronomer; August; Board; Cambridge; College; December; February; Greenwich; January; July; June; London; Lord; Lunar; March; November; Observatory; October; Paper; Playford; Prof.; Report; Royal; September; Sir; Smith; Society; South; Theory; Transit; University; Visitors; observation summary = survey work, the establishment of time-balls at different places, his time was also given to Lectures, generally on current astronomical Herschel.--On Nov. 13th I gave the Royal Astronomical Society a Paper Greenwich Observatory this year.--I was at this time pressing Tulley, Observatory, visiting Greenwich once a week (at least for some time), Greenwich, and worked for a long time in the Computing Room.--And in Observatory, and a great deal of correspondence followed: the plans time-signals, moved by an original clock at the Royal Observatory; and great value of the Greenwich Lunar Observations to Prof. observed at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Observatory which has occupied any of my time within the last year is the Planetary Observations made at the Royal Observatory in the years Lunar Theory, the great work which for some years had occupied much of Observations made at Cambridge Observatory Observations made at the Royal Observatory, id = 12340 author = Anonymous title = The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel date = keywords = Caroline; England; God; Herschel; John; Miss; Sir; Slough; William; brother; great; life; time summary = Herschel''s parents--The two brothers--A musical family--An inventive genius--The brothers in England--Herschel as an planet--Herschel''s combined musical and astronomical pursuits--A at Datchet--Herschel''s astronomical observations--Testing and strength--Herschel removes to Bath--Last days of an reputation--The forty-foot telescope--Herschel''s observations on Caroline Herschel''s devotion to her brother William--Her grief and gold medal--South on Sir William''s discoveries--On Miss Herschel''s duty--Sir John''s visit to Miss Herschel--Reminiscences of early brothers," says Caroline Herschel, "were often introduced as solo In July 1783 Herschel began his observations with his large twenty-foot telescope, had, prior to Herschel''s time, felt his curiosity excited by great was the importance, of Herschel''s labours, and in how remarkable "My brother left Slough, accompanied by Lady Herschel, for Herschel, says a brother astronomer, will never cease to occupy an view the results of all the observations Sir William Herschel had made received and read Sir John Herschel''s great work, "Cape the Herschels--brother, sister, nephew--in all the bright and lovely id = 2298 author = Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell) title = Great Astronomers date = keywords = Cambridge; College; Dr.; Flamsteed; Galileo; Halley; Hamilton; Herschel; John; Kepler; Laplace; Mars; Newton; PLATE; Professor; Ptolemy; Royal; Sir; Tycho; University; Venus; Verrier summary = movement, by which the stars and all other celestial bodies appear to Ptolemy''s astronomical works had appeared a few years before the observations of the new star as those which Tycho made, possessed, places of the moon, the planets, and the stars on the celestial The last of Galileo''s great astronomical discoveries related to the fact, the great observer himself did not accept the new views of as the circumstances of astronomical observation would at that time At the present day, astronomers of the great national observatories illustrious friend''s great work, so that in the same year he was in a movement of the earth around the sun, the star must appear to have great French astronomer sketched for the first time that remarkable earth, the sun, and the five great planets with which Laplace was When he was twenty-eight years old, his first great astronomical id = 31598 author = Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland) title = The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story date = keywords = Ali; Bartouki; Cairo; Farid; Hassan; Kemel; Kerama; Moustafa; Rick; Scotty; Winston; Youssef; cat; egyptian summary = Rick lifted the Egyptian cat and rifled a pass through the closing ranks Hassan led the way like a charging lineman, with Rick in his wake. "Give it to the right Ali Moustafa," Rick said. "Hassan," Rick said at last, "even American science couldn''t keep a Rick asked, still chuckling, "Hassan, do camels always complain like Rick''s hand went to the Egyptian cat in his pocket. Rick and Scotty sat on a box under the antenna while Hassan squatted and "Maybe they sent one for us and three for the cat," Rick said hopefully. Rick searched until he saw what Scotty''s quick eyes had spotted. Rick did so, and the boys went outside to where Hassan waited patiently. As the boys walked to where Hassan waited, Scotty grinned at Rick. Scotty saw him to the door, then turned to Rick. Rick and Scotty turned to look at the mustached man. id = 29031 author = Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton) title = Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works date = keywords = Bath; Bode; Dr.; England; HERSCHEL; Hanover; Jahrbuch; London; Mr.; Phil; Royal; Saturn; Sir; Society; WILLIAM; star summary = In the following account of the life and works of Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, on the Periodical Star in Collo Ceti_, by Mr. WILLIAM HERSCHEL, of Bath. For some years HERSCHEL has observed the heavens every hour The memoir on the forty-foot telescope shows throughout that HERSCHEL''S general catalogue existed before HERSCHEL''S time, and led by the In the prosecution of this work HERSCHEL found stars whose light was The double stars were the subject of HERSCHEL''S earliest and of his The question of determining the parallax of stars first brought HERSCHEL case of one of HERSCHEL''S double stars, in much the same order in which HERSCHEL himself lived to see some of his double stars perform observed (by Sir JOHN HERSCHEL) with a telescope of twenty feet, similar Sun and Fixed Stars_ (1795), HERSCHEL recounts what was known of the of each double star [observed by HERSCHEL], brought together on id = 28613 author = Lodge, Oliver, Sir title = Pioneers of Science date = keywords = Church; Copernicus; FIG; Galileo; Halley; Herschel; Jupiter; Kepler; LECTURE; Laplace; Mars; Mercury; Mr.; Newton; Principia; Professor; Rome; Royal; Saturn; Sir; Tycho; University; earth; illustration; moon; motion; planet; star; time summary = all-important body in the universe, if the sun and planets and stars planets and stars revolve round our insignificant earth was too great to The length of the earth''s year is 365ยท256 days; its mean distance from uniform motion in each circle round the earth as a fixed body. planet''s year depends on the 3/2th power of its distance from the sun. By this time Newton was only forty-five years old, but his main work was moon, which is 60 times as far from the centre of the earth, drops 16 the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars light must be 10,000 times as great as the velocity of the earth in its Newton of the observed facts of the motion of the moon, the way he Now consider the earth and moon revolving round each other like a man id = 10202 author = Mitchell, Maria title = Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals date = keywords = Airy; America; August; Bond; Cambridge; College; Dr.; England; English; Europe; Hawthorne; John; London; Maria; Miss; Mitchell; Mr.; Mrs.; New; October; Professor; Rome; Schumacher; Sir; Somerville; St.; Vassar; Washington summary = they talked Miss Mitchell closed her book and took up her knitting, for When Miss Mitchell went to Europe she took her Almanac work with her, day;'' another said, ''They took a walk.'' It came to Hawthorne''s turn, and "One day Mrs. Hawthorne came to my room, held up an inkstand, and said, "Mrs. Airy said to me, ''Although we are invited to be guests of Dr. Whewell, he is quite too mighty a man to come to meet us." Her sons, "I turned to the young American girl who sat next to me, and said, ''Miss "Miss Southey said that her father felt that he knew as many Americans "I asked after the children, and Miss Southey said that the little boy "He told me that a fine-looking, white-headed, good-featured old man was In her life at Vassar College there was a great deal for Miss Mitchell id = 19309 author = Newcomb, Simon title = The Reminiscences of an Astronomer date = keywords = Academy; Almanac; American; Congress; Dr.; England; Greenwich; Harvard; Henry; John; Mr.; Nautical; Naval; Navy; New; Observatory; Paris; President; Prof.; Professor; Secretary; States; Venus; Washington; work summary = order to learn in a moment what great astronomers of recent times had experience in the use of astronomical instruments, went at his work not only a great interest in scientific work, especially astronomy, way could keep the exact time necessary in the work of an astronomer. to have charge of the astronomical work of the observatory, which that the astronomical work of the observatory has not been prosecuted Of our leading astronomical observers of the present day--of such In astronomical observations all work is at the mercy of the elements. that up to a quite recent time no work on scientific method appeared Before his time the working force of an observatory time the trained astronomer worked with instruments of very delicate and the work of the Paris Observatory, so far as observations of of protection, but for some years I had not time to read their works, id = 6574 author = Noyes, Alfred title = Watchers of the Sky date = keywords = Brahe; Christine; Galileo; God; Jeppe; Kepler; Newton; Rome; Tycho; great; light; like; man; new; world summary = the very point of death hands them over to a young man named Kepler. the great rhythmical laws of the universe revealed by science, truth That darkness once again, and win new worlds. Meets the unknowable and eternal God. And there was one that moved like light in light To talk with Tycho of the strange new dreams Like some great poet''s universal song. And, as he wondered, like a light she moved Hipparchus also saw a strange new star, To mark the world''s end and the Judgment Day. Then, in this hubbub, Dancey told the king Into the great new age I shall not know, Into the great new age I must not know, Into the great new age I must not know, Build the new heaven and earth, and save the world."_ Like a blind giant in dreams to find what power And, if men found new worlds in years to come,