Distant Reader - subject-bathEngland-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 10 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 184,627 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 18,462 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 88. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

also, may, good, hot, water, much, cold, heat, stomacke, will, reason, haue, one, time, bath, yet, nature, especially, vse, bodies, great, must, therefore, waters, make, made, nourishment, shall, dry, well, like, first, many, vnto, doth, substance, best, bathes, bodie, two, better, body, earth, wherefore, concoction, hurtfull, taste, bee, fire, meat

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Via recta ad vitam longam, or A plaine philosophical discourse of the nature, faculties, and effects, of all such things, as by way of nourishments, and dieteticall obseruations, make for the preseruation of health with their iust applications vnto euery age, constitution of bodie, and time of yeare. Wherein also, by way of introduction, the nature and choice of habitable places, with the true vse of our famous bathes of Bathe is perspicuously demonstrated. By To: Venner, Doctor of Physicke, at Bathe in the spring, and fall, and at other times in the burrough of North-Petherton neere to the ancient hauen-towne of Bridgewater in Somerset-shire., A discourse of natural bathes, and mineral waters wherein, the original of fountains in general is declared, the nature and difference of minerals with examples of particular bathes, the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actual heat of bathes, and their virtues proceed, by what means mineral waters are to be discover''d, and lastly, of the nature and uses of bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe, in Someerset-shire / by Edw. Jorden, Doctor in Physick., and The baths of Bathe: or, A necessary compendious treatise concerning the nature, vse and efficacie of those famous hot vvaters published for the benefit of all such, as yeerely for their health, resort to those baths: with an aduertisement of the great vtilitie that commeth to mans body, by the taking of physick in the spring, inferred vpon a question mooued, concerning the frequencie of sicknesse, and death of people more in that season, then in any other. Whereunto is also annexed a censure, concerning the water of Saint Vincents rocks neere Bristoll, which begins to grow in great request and vse against the stone. By To. Venner, Doctor in Physick in Bathe..

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

haue weake, english books, early english, actual heat, mineral waters, weake stomacks, books online, euery age, second degree, first degree, haue hot, hard concoction, easily digested, strong stomacks, creation partnership, text creation, good nourishment, dry bodies, third degree, page images, subiect vnto, kings bath, easier concoction, much vse, haue cold, reason whereof, hard digestion, shall require, easie concoction, eaten raw, weake stomacke, naturall heat, image sets, represented either, hot waters, hot seasons, characters represented, tcp schema, young men, may bee, may well, cholericke bodies, haue strong, quench thirst, mornings fasting, vse thereof, often vse, hot stomacks, better nourishment, olde men

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A step to the Bath with a character of the place. Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths for cure. By the author of the Manual of prayers, for the use of the scholars of Winchester Colledge., and A discourse of natural bathes, and mineral waters wherein, the original of fountains in general is declared, the nature and difference of minerals with examples of particular bathes, the generation of minerals in the earth, from whence both the actual heat of bathes, and their virtues proceed, by what means mineral waters are to be discover''d, and lastly, of the nature and uses of bathes, but especially of our bathes at Bathe, in Someerset-shire / by Edw. Jorden, Doctor in Physick..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

tcp, waters, bathes, bath, springs, nature, king, hot, cold, city, church, wife, water, vse, vnto, vitriol, tin, sun, sulphur, sugar, stomacke, spring, species, son, sir, sea, salt, roman, reason, prayer, physitian, physicke, physician, pence, nourishment, nitre, mines, minerals, meat, mayor, majesty, majesties, lord, lady, ladies, journey, iron, hurtfull, house, heat

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be good, and A step to the Bath with a character of the place. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

water, stomacke, heat, reason, time, bodies, nourishment, nature, vse, substance, body, concoction, waters, taste, meat, bodie, fire, stomacks, temperature, parts, earth, meats, part, age, wine, degree, flesh, men, use, things, health, moyst, constitution, humors, bathes, self, obstructions, salt, minerals, quality, place, way, cause, manner, others, text, places, thing, man, doth

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, are, be, was, have, being, make, made, do, were, had, eaten, been, taken, wherefore, take, according, come, find, called, concerning, said, vnto, having, give, found, see, hath, haue, bee, seeing, let, did, vsed, boyled, say, am, thought, know, digested, eat, put, maketh, doe, encoded, came, call, think, proceed, given

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

bath, c., 〉, 〈, ◊, god, de, haue, tcp, baths, bathe, ●, lord, doe, hath, city, bathes, king, bee, sulphur, waters, thou, lib, sea, lesse, sun, salt, water, elements, iuyce, london, bitumen, english, church, weake, beere, nitre, choler, winde, text, iron, grosse, sugar, tei, sir, nature, minerals, eebo, springs, l.

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, they, i, them, their, his, we, our, my, he, you, your, me, her, him, us, its, thy, she, themselves, thee, himself, vp, one, mine, ''em, whereof, vnto, ours, ''s, ●, l, hic, herself, fundamentis, elias, bothey

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, such, hot, good, cold, much, great, many, more, dry, same, best, first, better, profitable, conuenient, little, most, hard, haue, pleasant, strong, young, own, second, subiect, true, greater, old, pure, grosse, natural, full, hurtfull, common, former, moist, small, whole, excellent, third, actual, sweet, new, like, particular, several, fit, wholsome, cholericke

not, very, so, then, also, more, especially, therefore, much, well, most, as, now, only, too, onely, somewhat, here, rather, thereof, yet, greatly, easily, commonly, up, there, out, never, sometimes, first, often, away, thus, before, all, quickly, otherwise, together, in, far, better, again, perhaps, afterwards, hardly, almost, long, likewise, forth, off

Next steps

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