Харбин Хэйлунцзян пишет: ↑21 июн 2019, 13:30
The Celestial Worlds Discovered, 1690, Christiaan Huygens. И я заметил что не все существительные идут с заглавных:
Какая-то логика смутно просматривается но я бы не рискнул высказывать свои мысли.
Здесь в блоге по ссылке можно прочитать цитаты из David Cristal, относящиеся к периоду, когда была опубликована эта книга:
When William Caxton introduced printing to England in the 15th century, “great uncertainty” surrounded the use of capital letters, according to the linguist David Crystal.
In The Stories of English (2004), Crystal writes that capital letters were “first used for proper names as well as for sentence and verse-line openings.”
Later, he says, capitals “were extended to any words thought to be important (such as titles, terms of address, and personification) as well as to words receiving special emphasis.”
“During the seventeenth century, virtually any word might be capitalized, if it were felt to be significant, and compositors—to be on the safe side—tended to over-capitalize,” he writes.
In The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Crystal expands on some of these points, noting efforts by John Hart, a 16th-century grammarian and spelling reformer, to bring some order to the language.
“Hart recommended his readers to use a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence, proper name, and important common noun,” he writes. “By the 17th century, the practice had extended to titles (Sir, Lady), forms of address (Father, Mistris), and personified nouns (Nature). Emphasized words and phrases would also attract a capital.”
- а дальше то, что было процитировано в посте по ссылке.