Abstract
In 1827, Charles Babbage published his Table of Logarithms in London. In the preparation of the first edition, the author, together with the printer, carried out one of the first systematic investigations into the factors which make printed pages both easily legible and optically endurable. In the preface, Babbage summarizes the results of his studies and experiments with sizes and arrangements of type as well as with the color and texture of paper. That the Babbage experiments and conclusions are valid is readily apparent when one compares his book with similar volumes printed more than one hundred years later.
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