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'''Eagres'''<br />
107; tideal bore in a river, now esp. that of the river Trent.
A tidal bore is a steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides
or by the constriction of a spring tide as it passes up an estuary.

'''Earth'''<br />
602

<div id="eic"></div>'''East India Company'''<br />
139; aka [[J#john|John Company]]; 252; 270; 479; 539; [[East India Company|MORE]]; [http://www.theeastindiacompany.com E.I.C. Website]

'''Ecole de Piraterie'''<br />
27; French: School of Piracy

'''[[Edges in Mason & Dixon|EDGES]]'''

<div id="Edgewise"></div>'''Edgewise, Mr. & Mrs.'''<br />
353

'''E-do'''<br />
432; what Tokyo was called in the 18th century

'''Eggslap, Mrs.'''<br />
455; extortionist cook on M-D Line and Stig's lover; 546; 614

'''Ehud'''<br />
454; on M-D Line crew

'''E.I.C.'''<br />
''See'' [#eic">East India Company</a>

'''''Elan'', or ''Esprit'''''<br />
27; these are the names of two cars manufactured by Lotus, in Great Britain

'''Eldritch Powers'''<br />
498; Weird, occult, or magical powers (derived from ''elfriche'': fairylande)

'''Elect Cohens'''<br /> 358; "Cohen" is the Hebrew word for priest. Much of the [[Book of Leviticus|book of Leviticus]] is devoted to spelling out their duties. As for the "Elect Cohens of Paris," they were an 18th century Masonic group. All of the Cohens are "elect" in the sense that God chose them for his priests; 485; 612

'''Electricity'''<br />
307

'''Electrophiles'''<br />
295

<div id="eleven"></div>'''Eleven Missing Days'''<br />
190; Reference to a the days skipped when the English finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752. It is the present calendar system which removed the leap year three times every four hundred years from the Julian calendar. It does a better job at keeping the summer solstice on June 21st. By 1752 England and the eastern part of America was finding that the summer solstice arrived on June 10th hence the need for an eleven day addition; Schizochronic year of '52, 192; Calendar Reform of '52, 554-55; 603; 629; ''See also'' [[N#newstyle|New Style]]. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar WIKI].

'''Elijah'''<br />
297; "the Swamper"

'''Eliza'''<br />
529; ''See'' [[F#eliza|Fields, Eliza]]

'''Elkton'''<br />
390; where Dimdown runs clandestine printing press

'''Ellicott Clock'''<br />
121

'''Elsinore, Battlements of'''<br />
545; opening location of Hamlet, where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears

'''Elytra'''<br />
88

'''Emerson, William (1701-82)'''

:There was living at that time at the village of Hurworth, a few miles from Darlington, an eccentric character, William Emerson, whose unconventionality in dress and manners were rather at variance with the fact that he was a man of education with considerable knowledge of mathematics and physics. ... Jeremiah was brought to notice by someone named Emerson who was probably this man; that he was summoned to the Woolwich academy for examination and evidently satisfied his examiners, for they asked him, "Were you at Oxford or Cambridge?" "Neither," he said. "Well then, where did you get your knowledge of astronomy?" "In my pit-cabin at Cockfield Fell," he replied, meaning doubtless in the office at his father's colliery where he was then engaged in some capacity above ground. <ref>"Jeremiah Dixon and his Brother", by H.P. Hollis, ''Journal of the British Astronomy Association'', v44, n8, June 1934, pp 294-9</ref>

17; Dixon's "old teacher"; Mr. Emerson was a real person, a minor mathematician and scientist of his day who wrote about a dozen scientific books and texts and whom Jeremiah Dixon did in fact know personally. Emerson's mystickal nature may be a Pynchon invention; 73; 98; 215; 251; 268; 317; 318; 423; coat, 500; 556; of Hurworth, 568; 709; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson_%28mathematician%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Encyclopédie'''<br />
389; 18th century French encyclopaedia that was the creation of the Philosophes, who were dedicated to the spirit of the Enlightenment, i.e., open-mindedness, secular thought and the advancement of science; Encyclopaedists, 359; ''Encyclopédistes'', 546

'''Ensign Cheer'''<br />
477; a sarcastic reference to Mason's pessimism

<div id="wheel"></div>'''E-O Wheel'''<br />
421; E-O: "Even Odds"; a roulette (French: "small wheel") wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.

'''Ephemeris'''<br />
765; a table showing the assigned places of a celestial body for regular
intervals, used often in Astrology

'''Epictetus (c.55-c.135)'''<br />
30; a Roman slave later exiled to Nicopolis in Greece, was one of the leading Stoics. Stoicism is a moral doctrine which holds that human beings must conform themselves to the ways of the universe. The Stoics believed that human beings have no control over external events and that the only thing in a person's power is that person's response to events or outlook.

'''Epiphany'''<br />
760; January 6, in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first
manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles

'''Epsilonics'''<br />
138; Epsilons, 482

'''Eratosthenes (276-197 BC)'''<br />
574; Greek astronomer who measured how the Earth curved between two cities in Egypt, and used basic goemetry to calculate the distance around the Earth (its circumference).
He also kept a table of star locations and contributed to the field of mathematics. He found a method of finding all the prime numbers.

'''Erin, Daughter of'''<br />
571; Erin = Ireland; an Irish girl

'''Escombe'''<br />
634; town in South Africa, in Queensburg

'''Etesian'''<br />
77; occurring annually

<div id="ethelmer"></div>'''Ethelmer'''<br />
30; son of Ives LeSpark and nephew of J. Wade LeSpark; the prefix "Ethel-" or "Aethel-" (early German: "noble") in names was fairly common in Britain in the [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke|Middle Ages]], e.g. "Aethelmaer" (or "Ethelmer"), "Aethelmund," "Aethelred"; for example, the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' (9-12th c.) includes an alderman named Ethelmer who died in AD 982, and a Wiccian alderman, Ethelmund, in AD 800; or [[Ethelmer|check this out!]]; "the University man" 260

'''Eucharist'''<br />
404; Holy communion which symbolizes Christ's body transsubstantiating into
bread, his blood into wine; Doctrine of Transsubstantiation, 404;

'''Euclid (c.330-c.275 BC)'''<br />
294; Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements, was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians; 337; 484; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid Wikipedia]

'''Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)'''<br />
220; Hugely influential Swiss mathematician (studied under [[B#bernoulli|Bernoulli]]) before mathematics was treated as a separate discipline; extended Newtonian mechanics to hydrodynamics; three-body problem; Euler-Langrange equations of mechanics and the calculus of variations; calculus, differential equations, complex analysis.

'''Euphrenia, Aunt'''<br />
103; Wicks Cherrycoke's sister

'''Euphroes'''<br />
25; Euphroe is a nautical term for block of wood with holes in it, part of a crowfoot; derived from German ''Jungfrau'' ("young woman" or "mistress") or, still more likely, Dutch ''juffrouw'' = miss; 54

<div id="eurydice"></div>'''Eurydice'''<br />
147; wife of Orpheus; 207; "like Eurydice, somehow to be redeem'd" 555; ''See'' [[O#orpheus|Orpheus]]

'''Everybeet, Joseph'''<br />
442; Quartz-scryer; 547

'''Ewing, Mr.'''<br />
773

'''Exodus 4:14'''<br />
486; ''See'' [[B#bible|Bible]]

<div id="extra"></div>'''extraterrestrials'''<br />
219; "distant Onlookers"; "Winters, long and Mortal and soon enough productive of Visitants from beneath the Ice" 531; "the transport of some unseen Influence" 547; Guardians, 662; "powerful Strangers" 649; "Others who are absent, pending their Return" 656; "Now and then, very much closer to the Earth, [Mason] begins to see Lights, moving, flickering, soon gone. [...] "They are going their Way, as we go ours." 724; "These Apparitions in the Sky, we never observe but in Motion, [...] Once safely part of the Night Sky, they may hang there at their Pleasure" 726

'''Ezekiel'''<br />
400

===References===
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==Page 190==
'''Macclesfield and that gang'''<br />
Reference to George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, who was very prominent in effecting the changeover to the Gregorian calendar, which came into effect in 1752. From 1752 until his death, Macclesfield was president of the Royal Society. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Parker,_2nd_Earl_of_Macclesfield WIKI].

'''Eleven Days'''<br>
Reference to a lost "Eleven Days" when the English finally adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752. It is the present calendar system which removed the leap year three times every four hundred years from the Julian calendar. It does a better job at keeping the summer solstice on June 21st. By 1752 England and the eastern part of America was finding that the summer solstice arrived on June 10th hence the need for an eleven day addition. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar WIKI].

'''Roman Whore's Time'''<br>
English epithet for the Catholic Church, the religion of the hated French; the adoption of "Roman Whore's Time" was Protestant England's long-delayed adoption of Pope Gregory XIII's reform (1582) of the Julian calendar which resulted in the loss of eleven days.

==Page 192==
'''"Time, ye see," says the Landlord, "is the money of Science, isn't it."<br />
Cf. thematically, Time, science in Against the Day.

'''Schizochronick year of '52'''<br />
Schizochronick = the splitting, or fission of time

==Page 193==
'''''Walpole-Gang'''''<br />
Reference to Horatio (or Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), who was an art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. As well as the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of Lord Nelson. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole,_4th_Earl_of_Orford WIKI]

'''Shirburn Castle'''<br>
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (c.1695–1764), celebrated as an astronomer, spent much time conducting astronomical observations at Shirburn Castle, which his father had bought in 1716. Here he built an observatory and a chemical laboratory. In 1761 the astronomer Thomas Hornsby observed the transit of Venus from the castle grounds. From[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirburn_Castle WIKI]

'''Leek, Staffordshire'''<br>
A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
as the Queen of the Moorlands

'''Lord Chesterfield's House'''<br>
Home of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773), who was a British statesman and man of letters... Though Dukedom refused, he continued for some years to attend the Upper House, and to take part in its proceedings. In 1751, seconded by Lord Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society, and James Bradley, the eminent mathematician, he distinguished himself greatly in the debates on the calendar, and succeeded in making the new style a fact: the Act of Parliament is sometimes known as Chesterfield's Act. Deafness, however, was gradually affecting him, and he withdrew little by little from society and the practice of politics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield WIKI].

==Page 194==
'''Mathesis'''<br>
Ma·the·sis n. Learning; especially, mathematics

See page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13:_125-145#Page_134 134].

'''Time must be denied its freedom to elapse'''<br>
again, ATD must be referenced thematically.

==Page 195==
'''Stepney'''<br>
Joke on 'far, far east": Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.

'''quite another relation to Time....not...the terror of time's passage'''<br>

Major themes of ''Against the Day'' include time travel and time vs. timelessness.

==Page 196==
'''playing upon enormous Chimes of Crystal Antimony'''<br>
Yes, this may be stretching it, but given the scene here, and its relation to space/time/Reason etc., it is interesting to note that switching the "m" and the "second n" in Antimony, gives us Antinomy, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomy WIKI]:

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience (phenomena). Empirical reason cannot here play the role of establishing rational truths because it goes beyond possible experience and is applied to the sphere of that which transcends it.

For Kant there are four antinomies connected with

1. the limitation of the universe in respect of space and time,
2. the theory that the whole consists of indivisible atoms (whereas, in fact, none such exist),
3. the problem of free will in relation to universal causality
4. the existence of a necessary being

about each of which pure reason contradicts the empirical, as thesis and antithesis. This was part of Kant's critical program of determining limits to science and philosophical inquiry.

'''"...despite these enigmatick Gaolers?"'''<br>
Seems to be a reference to the Royal Society, Macclesfield, Bradley, etc. as "cryptic jailors" of these alien Pygmies now inhabiting the lost eleven days.

'''Black Hole<br>
of Calcutta, main meaning. See Wikipedia. But black holes, as discovered
and named by astronomers in the 20th Century, are collapsed stars where
light can not even escape because of the pull of gravity (!). Time changes, astronomers say, inside black holes. Resonance with the discussion of the loss of eleven days going on in the text here.

'''the Hoogli'''<br>
Hoogli River, a distributary of the Ganges River, both in India.

==Page 197==
'''Lord's Assizes'''<br>
The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales... An Act passed in the reign of King Edward I provided that writs summoning juries to Westminster were to appoint a time and place for hearing the causes with the county of origin. Thus they were known as writs of nisi prius (Latin "unless before"): the jury would hear the case at Westminster unless the king's justices had assembled a court in the county to deal with the case beforehand. The commission of oyer and terminer, was a general commission to hear and decide cases, while the commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners held in the gaols (jails). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assize WIKI]

'''Albedo'''<br>
n. , pl. -dos . The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.

==Page 198==
'''the Defenestration of the Clothiers in '56'''<br>[[Image:Defenestration of Prague.jpg|thumb|[http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Defenestration_of_Prague Defenestration (of Prague)]|right]]Clothiers were recorded in 1685, 1689, 1692, 1712, and 1756 and the trade apparently ceased towards the end of the 18th century.- Economic History of England

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'''Eagres'''<br />
107; tideal bore in a river, now esp. that of the river Trent.
A tidal bore is a steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides
or by the constriction of a spring tide as it passes up an estuary.

'''Earth'''<br />
602

<div id="eic"></div>'''East India Company'''<br />
139; aka [[J#john|John Company]]; 252; 270; 479; 539; [[East India Company|MORE]]; [http://www.theeastindiacompany.com E.I.C. Website]

'''Ecole de Piraterie'''<br />
27; French: School of Piracy

'''[[Edges in Mason & Dixon|EDGES]]'''

<div id="Edgewise"></div>'''Edgewise, Mr. & Mrs.'''<br />
353

'''E-do'''<br />
432; what Tokyo was called in the 18th century

'''Eggslap, Mrs.'''<br />
455; extortionist cook on M-D Line and Stig's lover; 546; 614

'''Ehud'''<br />
454; on M-D Line crew

'''E.I.C.'''<br />
''See'' [#eic">East India Company</a>

'''''Elan'', or ''Esprit'''''<br />
27; these are the names of two cars manufactured by Lotus, in Great Britain

'''Eldritch Powers'''<br />
498; Weird, occult, or magical powers (derived from ''elfriche'': fairylande)

'''Elect Cohens'''<br /> 358; "Cohen" is the Hebrew word for priest. Much of the [[Book of Leviticus|book of Leviticus]] is devoted to spelling out their duties. As for the "Elect Cohens of Paris," they were an 18th century Masonic group. All of the Cohens are "elect" in the sense that God chose them for his priests; 485; 612

'''Electricity'''<br />
307

'''Electrophiles'''<br />
295

<div id="eleven"></div>'''Eleven Missing Days'''<br />
190; Reference to a the days skipped when the English finally adopted the Gregorian calendar.The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752. It is the present calendar system which removed the leap year three times every four hundred years from the Julian calendar. It does a better job at keeping the summer solstice on June 21st. By 1852 England and the eastern part of America was finding that the summer solstice arrived on June 10th hence the need for an eleven day addition; Schizochronic year of '52, 192; Calendar Reform of '52, 554-55; 603; 629; ''See also'' [[N#newstyle|New Style]]. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar WIKI].

'''Elijah'''<br />
297; "the Swamper"

'''Eliza'''<br />
529; ''See'' [[F#eliza|Fields, Eliza]]

'''Elkton'''<br />
390; where Dimdown runs clandestine printing press

'''Ellicott Clock'''<br />
121

'''Elsinore, Battlements of'''<br />
545; opening location of Hamlet, where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears

'''Elytra'''<br />
88

'''Emerson, William (1701-82)'''

:There was living at that time at the village of Hurworth, a few miles from Darlington, an eccentric character, William Emerson, whose unconventionality in dress and manners were rather at variance with the fact that he was a man of education with considerable knowledge of mathematics and physics. ... Jeremiah was brought to notice by someone named Emerson who was probably this man; that he was summoned to the Woolwich academy for examination and evidently satisfied his examiners, for they asked him, "Were you at Oxford or Cambridge?" "Neither," he said. "Well then, where did you get your knowledge of astronomy?" "In my pit-cabin at Cockfield Fell," he replied, meaning doubtless in the office at his father's colliery where he was then engaged in some capacity above ground. <ref>"Jeremiah Dixon and his Brother", by H.P. Hollis, ''Journal of the British Astronomy Association'', v44, n8, June 1934, pp 294-9</ref>

17; Dixon's "old teacher"; Mr. Emerson was a real person, a minor mathematician and scientist of his day who wrote about a dozen scientific books and texts and whom Jeremiah Dixon did in fact know personally. Emerson's mystickal nature may be a Pynchon invention; 73; 98; 215; 251; 268; 317; 318; 423; coat, 500; 556; of Hurworth, 568; 709; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson_%28mathematician%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Encyclopédie'''<br />
389; 18th century French encyclopaedia that was the creation of the Philosophes, who were dedicated to the spirit of the Enlightenment, i.e., open-mindedness, secular thought and the advancement of science; Encyclopaedists, 359; ''Encyclopédistes'', 546

'''Ensign Cheer'''<br />
477; a sarcastic reference to Mason's pessimism

<div id="wheel"></div>'''E-O Wheel'''<br />
421; E-O: "Even Odds"; a roulette (French: "small wheel") wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.

'''Ephemeris'''<br />
765; a table showing the assigned places of a celestial body for regular
intervals, used often in Astrology

'''Epictetus (c.55-c.135)'''<br />
30; a Roman slave later exiled to Nicopolis in Greece, was one of the leading Stoics. Stoicism is a moral doctrine which holds that human beings must conform themselves to the ways of the universe. The Stoics believed that human beings have no control over external events and that the only thing in a person's power is that person's response to events or outlook.

'''Epiphany'''<br />
760; January 6, in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first
manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles

'''Epsilonics'''<br />
138; Epsilons, 482

'''Eratosthenes (276-197 BC)'''<br />
574; Greek astronomer who measured how the Earth curved between two cities in Egypt, and used basic goemetry to calculate the distance around the Earth (its circumference).
He also kept a table of star locations and contributed to the field of mathematics. He found a method of finding all the prime numbers.

'''Erin, Daughter of'''<br />
571; Erin = Ireland; an Irish girl

'''Escombe'''<br />
634; town in South Africa, in Queensburg

'''Etesian'''<br />
77; occurring annually

<div id="ethelmer"></div>'''Ethelmer'''<br />
30; son of Ives LeSpark and nephew of J. Wade LeSpark; the prefix "Ethel-" or "Aethel-" (early German: "noble") in names was fairly common in Britain in the [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke|Middle Ages]], e.g. "Aethelmaer" (or "Ethelmer"), "Aethelmund," "Aethelred"; for example, the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' (9-12th c.) includes an alderman named Ethelmer who died in AD 982, and a Wiccian alderman, Ethelmund, in AD 800; or [[Ethelmer|check this out!]]; "the University man" 260

'''Eucharist'''<br />
404; Holy communion which symbolizes Christ's body transsubstantiating into
bread, his blood into wine; Doctrine of Transsubstantiation, 404;

'''Euclid (c.330-c.275 BC)'''<br />
294; Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements, was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians; 337; 484; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid Wikipedia]

'''Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)'''<br />
220; Hugely influential Swiss mathematician (studied under [[B#bernoulli|Bernoulli]]) before mathematics was treated as a separate discipline; extended Newtonian mechanics to hydrodynamics; three-body problem; Euler-Langrange equations of mechanics and the calculus of variations; calculus, differential equations, complex analysis.

'''Euphrenia, Aunt'''<br />
103; Wicks Cherrycoke's sister

'''Euphroes'''<br />
25; Euphroe is a nautical term for block of wood with holes in it, part of a crowfoot; derived from German ''Jungfrau'' ("young woman" or "mistress") or, still more likely, Dutch ''juffrouw'' = miss; 54

<div id="eurydice"></div>'''Eurydice'''<br />
147; wife of Orpheus; 207; "like Eurydice, somehow to be redeem'd" 555; ''See'' [[O#orpheus|Orpheus]]

'''Everybeet, Joseph'''<br />
442; Quartz-scryer; 547

'''Ewing, Mr.'''<br />
773

'''Exodus 4:14'''<br />
486; ''See'' [[B#bible|Bible]]

<div id="extra"></div>'''extraterrestrials'''<br />
219; "distant Onlookers"; "Winters, long and Mortal and soon enough productive of Visitants from beneath the Ice" 531; "the transport of some unseen Influence" 547; Guardians, 662; "powerful Strangers" 649; "Others who are absent, pending their Return" 656; "Now and then, very much closer to the Earth, [Mason] begins to see Lights, moving, flickering, soon gone. [...] "They are going their Way, as we go ours." 724; "These Apparitions in the Sky, we never observe but in Motion, [...] Once safely part of the Night Sky, they may hang there at their Pleasure" 726

'''Ezekiel'''<br />
400

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'''Eagres'''<br />
107; tideal bore in a river, now esp. that of the river Trent.
A tidal bore is a steep-fronted wave caused by the meeting of two tides
or by the constriction of a spring tide as it passes up an estuary.

'''Earth'''<br />
602

<div id="eic"></div>'''East India Company'''<br />
139; aka [[J#john|John Company]]; 252; 270; 479; 539; [[East India Company|MORE]]; [http://www.theeastindiacompany.com E.I.C. Website]

'''Ecole de Piraterie'''<br />
27; French: School of Piracy

'''[[Edges in Mason & Dixon|EDGES]]'''

<div id="Edgewise"></div>'''Edgewise, Mr. & Mrs.'''<br />
353

'''E-do'''<br />
432; what Tokyo was called in the 18th century

'''Eggslap, Mrs.'''<br />
455; extortionist cook on M-D Line and Stig's lover; 546; 614

'''Ehud'''<br />
454; on M-D Line crew

'''E.I.C.'''<br />
''See'' [#eic">East India Company</a>

'''''Elan'', or ''Esprit'''''<br />
27; these are the names of two cars manufactured by Lotus, in Great Britain

'''Eldritch Powers'''<br />
498; Weird, occult, or magical powers (derived from ''elfriche'': fairylande)

'''Elect Cohens'''<br /> 358; "Cohen" is the Hebrew word for priest. Much of the [[Book of Leviticus|book of Leviticus]] is devoted to spelling out their duties. As for the "Elect Cohens of Paris," they were an 18th century Masonic group. All of the Cohens are "elect" in the sense that God chose them for his priests; 485; 612

'''Electricity'''<br />
307

'''Electrophiles'''<br />
295

<div id="eleven"></div>'''Eleven Missing Days'''<br />
190; The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752. It is the present calendar system which removed the leap year three times every four hundred years from the Julian calendar. It does a better job at keeping the summer solstice on June 21st. By 1852 England and the eastern part of America was finding that the summer solstice arrived on June 10th hence the need for an eleven day addition; Schizochronic year of '52, 192; Calendar Reform of '52, 554-55; 603; 629; ''See also'' [[N#newstyle|New Style]]. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar WIKI].

'''Elijah'''<br />
297; "the Swamper"

'''Eliza'''<br />
529; ''See'' [[F#eliza|Fields, Eliza]]

'''Elkton'''<br />
390; where Dimdown runs clandestine printing press

'''Ellicott Clock'''<br />
121

'''Elsinore, Battlements of'''<br />
545; opening location of Hamlet, where the ghost of Hamlet's father appears

'''Elytra'''<br />
88

'''Emerson, William (1701-82)'''

:There was living at that time at the village of Hurworth, a few miles from Darlington, an eccentric character, William Emerson, whose unconventionality in dress and manners were rather at variance with the fact that he was a man of education with considerable knowledge of mathematics and physics. ... Jeremiah was brought to notice by someone named Emerson who was probably this man; that he was summoned to the Woolwich academy for examination and evidently satisfied his examiners, for they asked him, "Were you at Oxford or Cambridge?" "Neither," he said. "Well then, where did you get your knowledge of astronomy?" "In my pit-cabin at Cockfield Fell," he replied, meaning doubtless in the office at his father's colliery where he was then engaged in some capacity above ground. <ref>"Jeremiah Dixon and his Brother", by H.P. Hollis, ''Journal of the British Astronomy Association'', v44, n8, June 1934, pp 294-9</ref>

17; Dixon's "old teacher"; Mr. Emerson was a real person, a minor mathematician and scientist of his day who wrote about a dozen scientific books and texts and whom Jeremiah Dixon did in fact know personally. Emerson's mystickal nature may be a Pynchon invention; 73; 98; 215; 251; 268; 317; 318; 423; coat, 500; 556; of Hurworth, 568; 709; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Emerson_%28mathematician%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''Encyclopédie'''<br />
389; 18th century French encyclopaedia that was the creation of the Philosophes, who were dedicated to the spirit of the Enlightenment, i.e., open-mindedness, secular thought and the advancement of science; Encyclopaedists, 359; ''Encyclopédistes'', 546

'''Ensign Cheer'''<br />
477; a sarcastic reference to Mason's pessimism

<div id="wheel"></div>'''E-O Wheel'''<br />
421; E-O: "Even Odds"; a roulette (French: "small wheel") wheel, a gambling game based on opposing pairs, e.g. black/white, even/odd, in which players bet on which red or black numbered compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball (spun in the opposite direction) will come to rest within. Bets are placed on a table marked to correspond with the compartments of the wheel.

'''Ephemeris'''<br />
765; a table showing the assigned places of a celestial body for regular
intervals, used often in Astrology

'''Epictetus (c.55-c.135)'''<br />
30; a Roman slave later exiled to Nicopolis in Greece, was one of the leading Stoics. Stoicism is a moral doctrine which holds that human beings must conform themselves to the ways of the universe. The Stoics believed that human beings have no control over external events and that the only thing in a person's power is that person's response to events or outlook.

'''Epiphany'''<br />
760; January 6, in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first
manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles

'''Epsilonics'''<br />
138; Epsilons, 482

'''Eratosthenes (276-197 BC)'''<br />
574; Greek astronomer who measured how the Earth curved between two cities in Egypt, and used basic goemetry to calculate the distance around the Earth (its circumference).
He also kept a table of star locations and contributed to the field of mathematics. He found a method of finding all the prime numbers.

'''Erin, Daughter of'''<br />
571; Erin = Ireland; an Irish girl

'''Escombe'''<br />
634; town in South Africa, in Queensburg

'''Etesian'''<br />
77; occurring annually

<div id="ethelmer"></div>'''Ethelmer'''<br />
30; son of Ives LeSpark and nephew of J. Wade LeSpark; the prefix "Ethel-" or "Aethel-" (early German: "noble") in names was fairly common in Britain in the [[Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke|Middle Ages]], e.g. "Aethelmaer" (or "Ethelmer"), "Aethelmund," "Aethelred"; for example, the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicles'' (9-12th c.) includes an alderman named Ethelmer who died in AD 982, and a Wiccian alderman, Ethelmund, in AD 800; or [[Ethelmer|check this out!]]; "the University man" 260

'''Eucharist'''<br />
404; Holy communion which symbolizes Christ's body transsubstantiating into
bread, his blood into wine; Doctrine of Transsubstantiation, 404;

'''Euclid (c.330-c.275 BC)'''<br />
294; Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematician of all time. His prize work, Elements, was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians; 337; 484; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid Wikipedia]

'''Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)'''<br />
220; Hugely influential Swiss mathematician (studied under [[B#bernoulli|Bernoulli]]) before mathematics was treated as a separate discipline; extended Newtonian mechanics to hydrodynamics; three-body problem; Euler-Langrange equations of mechanics and the calculus of variations; calculus, differential equations, complex analysis.

'''Euphrenia, Aunt'''<br />
103; Wicks Cherrycoke's sister

'''Euphroes'''<br />
25; Euphroe is a nautical term for block of wood with holes in it, part of a crowfoot; derived from German ''Jungfrau'' ("young woman" or "mistress") or, still more likely, Dutch ''juffrouw'' = miss; 54

<div id="eurydice"></div>'''Eurydice'''<br />
147; wife of Orpheus; 207; "like Eurydice, somehow to be redeem'd" 555; ''See'' [[O#orpheus|Orpheus]]

'''Everybeet, Joseph'''<br />
442; Quartz-scryer; 547

'''Ewing, Mr.'''<br />
773

'''Exodus 4:14'''<br />
486; ''See'' [[B#bible|Bible]]

<div id="extra"></div>'''extraterrestrials'''<br />
219; "distant Onlookers"; "Winters, long and Mortal and soon enough productive of Visitants from beneath the Ice" 531; "the transport of some unseen Influence" 547; Guardians, 662; "powerful Strangers" 649; "Others who are absent, pending their Return" 656; "Now and then, very much closer to the Earth, [Mason] begins to see Lights, moving, flickering, soon gone. [...] "They are going their Way, as we go ours." 724; "These Apparitions in the Sky, we never observe but in Motion, [...] Once safely part of the Night Sky, they may hang there at their Pleasure" 726

'''Ezekiel'''<br />
400

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'''Macclesfield and that gang'''<br />
Reference to George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, who was very prominent in effecting the changeover to the Gregorian calendar, which came into effect in 1752. From 1752 until his death, Macclesfield was president of the Royal Society. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Parker,_2nd_Earl_of_Macclesfield WIKI].

'''Eleven Days'''<br>
Reference to a lost "Eleven Days" when the English finally adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and at first adopted by only Catholic countries, was not adopted in England until 1752. It is the present calendar system which removed the leap year three times every four hundred years from the Julian calendar. It does a better job at keeping the summer solstice on June 21st. By 1852 England and the eastern part of America was finding that the summer solstice arrived on June 10th hence the need for an eleven day addition. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar WIKI].

'''Roman Whore's Time'''<br>
English epithet for the Catholic Church, the religion of the hated French; the adoption of "Roman Whore's Time" was Protestant England's long-delayed adoption of Pope Gregory XIII's reform (1582) of the Julian calendar which resulted in the loss of eleven days.

==Page 192==
'''"Time, ye see," says the Landlord, "is the money of Science, isn't it."<br />
Cf. thematically, Time, science in Against the Day.

'''Schizochronick year of '52'''<br />
Schizochronick = the splitting, or fission of time

==Page 193==
'''''Walpole-Gang'''''<br />
Reference to Horatio (or Horace) Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), who was an art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. As well as the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of Lord Nelson. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole,_4th_Earl_of_Orford WIKI]

'''Shirburn Castle'''<br>
The moated, sometime home of the Earls of Macclesfield. It is pictured on the 1797 penny token from the Globe Series issued by Peter Skidmore.

George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (c.1695–1764), celebrated as an astronomer, spent much time conducting astronomical observations at Shirburn Castle, which his father had bought in 1716. Here he built an observatory and a chemical laboratory. In 1761 the astronomer Thomas Hornsby observed the transit of Venus from the castle grounds. From[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirburn_Castle WIKI]

'''Leek, Staffordshire'''<br>
A busy market town in the Moorlands..Staffordshire is known
as the Queen of the Moorlands

'''Lord Chesterfield's House'''<br>
Home of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield PC KG (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773), who was a British statesman and man of letters... Though Dukedom refused, he continued for some years to attend the Upper House, and to take part in its proceedings. In 1751, seconded by Lord Macclesfield, president of the Royal Society, and James Bradley, the eminent mathematician, he distinguished himself greatly in the debates on the calendar, and succeeded in making the new style a fact: the Act of Parliament is sometimes known as Chesterfield's Act. Deafness, however, was gradually affecting him, and he withdrew little by little from society and the practice of politics. From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield WIKI].

==Page 194==
'''Mathesis'''<br>
Ma·the·sis n. Learning; especially, mathematics

See page [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_13:_125-145#Page_134 134].

'''Time must be denied its freedom to elapse'''<br>
again, ATD must be referenced thematically.

==Page 195==
'''Stepney'''<br>
Joke on 'far, far east": Stepney is an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east north-east of Charing Cross and forms part of the East End of London.

'''quite another relation to Time....not...the terror of time's passage'''<br>

Major themes of ''Against the Day'' include time travel and time vs. timelessness.

==Page 196==
'''playing upon enormous Chimes of Crystal Antimony'''<br>
Yes, this may be stretching it, but given the scene here, and its relation to space/time/Reason etc., it is interesting to note that switching the "m" and the "second n" in Antimony, gives us Antinomy, from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomy WIKI]:

The term acquired a special significance in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who used it to describe the equally rational but contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria of reason proper to the universe of sensible perception or experience (phenomena). Empirical reason cannot here play the role of establishing rational truths because it goes beyond possible experience and is applied to the sphere of that which transcends it.

For Kant there are four antinomies connected with

1. the limitation of the universe in respect of space and time,
2. the theory that the whole consists of indivisible atoms (whereas, in fact, none such exist),
3. the problem of free will in relation to universal causality
4. the existence of a necessary being

about each of which pure reason contradicts the empirical, as thesis and antithesis. This was part of Kant's critical program of determining limits to science and philosophical inquiry.

'''"...despite these enigmatick Gaolers?"'''<br>
Seems to be a reference to the Royal Society, Macclesfield, Bradley, etc. as "cryptic jailors" of these alien Pygmies now inhabiting the lost eleven days.

'''Black Hole<br>
of Calcutta, main meaning. See Wikipedia. But black holes, as discovered
and named by astronomers in the 20th Century, are collapsed stars where
light can not even escape because of the pull of gravity (!). Time changes, astronomers say, inside black holes. Resonance with the discussion of the loss of eleven days going on in the text here.

'''the Hoogli'''<br>
Hoogli River, a distributary of the Ganges River, both in India.

==Page 197==
'''Lord's Assizes'''<br>
The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales... An Act passed in the reign of King Edward I provided that writs summoning juries to Westminster were to appoint a time and place for hearing the causes with the county of origin. Thus they were known as writs of nisi prius (Latin "unless before"): the jury would hear the case at Westminster unless the king's justices had assembled a court in the county to deal with the case beforehand. The commission of oyer and terminer, was a general commission to hear and decide cases, while the commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners held in the gaols (jails). From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assize WIKI]

'''Albedo'''<br>
n. , pl. -dos . The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.

==Page 198==
'''the Defenestration of the Clothiers in '56'''<br>[[Image:Defenestration of Prague.jpg|thumb|[http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Defenestration_of_Prague Defenestration (of Prague)]|right]]Clothiers were recorded in 1685, 1689, 1692, 1712, and 1756 and the trade apparently ceased towards the end of the 18th century.- Economic History of England

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