- Gr****
stenos (narrow) and
graphein (to write). It has also been
called brachygraphy, from Gr****
brachys (short), and tachygraphy, from Gr****
tachys (swift...
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Writing Schoolemaster, London:
Thomas Orwin Dix,
Henry (1641), The Art of
Brachygraphy or Short-writing: by
characters faire, short, swift, easie, and legible...
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Gurney himself, however, in the
postscript to the
fourth edition of
Brachygraphy,
gives the date 1748. He may have
originally practised without an appointment...
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Secrete Writing' in Seventeenth-Century England, and
Samuel Shelton's
Brachygraphy" (PDF).
Attribution "Willis, John (d.1628?)" .
Dictionary of National...
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about 1720. This
system of 1707 was
slightly altered and
published as
Brachygraphy by
Thomas Gurney in 1750. In its
modified form it was used by official...
- committees.
Gurney edited the
ninth edition of his
father Thomas Gurney's
Brachygraphy in 1778.
While Thomas Gurney had
adopted the
system of
William Mason...
- He
edited the
fifteenth and
sixteenth editions of his grandfather's
Brachygraphy, 1824 and 1835. His son
Joseph Gurney followed in his father's steps...
