Appendix III:
Some Statistics

 

• Corpus word count: 1,193,385

• Decade structure: word counts and percentages

1640s	1650s	1660s	1670s	1680s	1690s	1700s	1710s	1720s	1730s
129,431	98,505	97,844	138,048	154,611	129,047	104,125	103,559	126,709	111,506
11%	8%	8%	12%	12%	11%	9%	9%	11%	9%

 

• Domain structure: word counts and percentages

economy	law	miscellaneous	politics	religion	science
178,110	209,742	169,019	208,228	206,338	221,948
15%	18%	14%	17%	17%	19%

 

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