Easy travel to other planets

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Someone recently brought an 1847 pamphlet to my attention:

ORRIN LINDSAY'S

PLAN OF

AERIAL NAVIGATION,

WITH A NARRATIVE OF HIS EXPLORATIONS IN THE

HIGHER REGIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE,

AND HIS WONDERFUL

VOYAGE ROUND THE MOON!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edited by J. L. RIDDELL, M.D.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Which is basically a "serious scientific paper"

Comments

[uk_sef]

They would probably look worse converted to HTML - which really isn't designed for mixing different sizes of character on multiple levels to pretty effect. In particular the "radic" (root) character wouldn't join neatly onto any of the horizontal line characters for the extension part and it would take a lot of jiggling to get tall brackets around 2 levels of text with a dividing line. The rest looks relatively easy in comparison.

Most people in science and maths really do draw their equations in - but using LaTeX:
http://www.latex-project.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

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That's where I ran into problems too - it can be done after a fashion using nested tables, different fonts, etc. but it's a total pain to get right. I tried an online LaTex editor but couldn't get it to work properly - I'll give it another try.

[uk_sef]

Meanwhile, the trivial one is indeed trivial (angle brackets and ampersands replaced!):

[TABLE][TR]
[TD][U]m[/U][BR /]x£sup2;[/TD]
[TD]=[/TD]
[TD][U]£nbsp;£nbsp;£nbsp;e£nbsp;£nbsp;£nbsp;[/U][BR /](c-x)£sup2;[/TD]
[/TABLE]

[uk_sef]

Oops - I accidentally deleted the closing [/TR] tag after the last table cell.

[ffutures]

Yes, that's more or less how I did it the simple one when I tried it - but given the complexity of the big equation I decided to go with image files for all of them. Incidentally, you can simplify it slightly by eliminating the underlining and line breaks by putting an [HR] after the m, saves a few bytes in that cell.

[uk_sef]

My issue with that is that there's too much space around HR (though not quite as bad as with the headers). Of course you can fix that with style and css stuff, but I prefer to keep my HTML as pure (and old-fashioned!) as possible.

[ffutures]

Fair enough.

I've just uploaded a slightly revised version which mentions the S thing and cleans up the graphics for the equations slightly.