10 Ralph Thoresby Diary, 1 Nov. 1680, ms. 21, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds.

11 Franklin, “An Economical Project,” Writings, IX, 183-89.

12 Bailyn, “The Apologia of Robert Keayne,” 577. For a general discussion of these questions see Patricia Cline Cohen, A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (Chicago, 1982).

13OED, s.v. “punctual.”