Waiting for reviewie → y, y / iCandidate #5038 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

astronomieastronomy

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it: 181 times in 58 works
Consistency: 95.7% (181 of 189)
Reach if approved: ~199 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: astronomy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 189 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 58 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The Works of that famous Mathematician, Edmund Gunter, ſometime Profeſſor of AſtronomieAstronomy in Greſſam Colledge, London, in Quarto.
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The Works of that famous Mathematician, Edmund Gunter, ſometime Profeſſor of AſtronomieAstronomy in Greſſam Colledge, London, in Quarto.
Thomas Hooker · The Saints Dignity and Duty · Open in the reader
Printed
Did in AſtronomieAstronomy precell
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Did in AſtronomieAstronomy precell
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… another, he communicated to them the truth, both in this, and in Arithmetike and AstronomieAstronomy, whereof before the Egyptians were ignorant. Abram (saith M. Broughton in his Concent) was …
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… another, he communicated to them the truth, both in this, and in Arithmetike and AstronomieAstronomy, whereof before the Egyptians were ignorant. Abram (saith M. Broughton in his Concent) was …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to haue beene inuented by the Chaldeans; yet they had other profitable sciences, as AstronomieAstronomy, Geometrie, and other liberall arts, which Daniel might safely learne, as Moses was brought …
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… to haue beene inuented by the Chaldeans; yet they had other profitable sciences, as AstronomieAstronomy, Geometrie, and other liberall arts, which Daniel might safely learne, as Moses was brought …
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as Christ knew not the day of Judgement, and husbandmen know not Physick, or AstronomieAstronomy, &c. and yet sinne not. But most usually ignorance is taken in the third …
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… as Christ knew not the day of Judgement, and husbandmen know not Physick, or AstronomieAstronomy, &c. and yet sinne not. But most usually ignorance is taken in the third …
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 116 · Open in the reader
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… ignorant of thoſe things that paſſe in this time? Or to haue learned by AſtronomieAstronomy the motions and influences of heauen, if they know not the means how to …
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… ignorant of thoſe things that paſſe in this time? Or to haue learned by AſtronomieAstronomy the motions and influences of heauen, if they know not the means how to …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Meditations Upon the Misery of Mankind · p. 58 · Open in the reader
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… from the Egyptians he lerned Geometrie, wherein he excelled; that he delt alſo in AſtronomieAstronomy, and by help thereof took the magnitude of the Sun. And this is all …
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… from the Egyptians he lerned Geometrie, wherein he excelled; that he delt alſo in AſtronomieAstronomy, and by help thereof took the magnitude of the Sun. And this is all …
Thomas Gataker · Vindication of His Annotations · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hancocke the Beadle of that Ward, and searching his bookes, founde a booke of AstronomieAstronomy, called the worke of Ioannes de sacro busto de sphaera, with figures, some round …
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… Hancocke the Beadle of that Ward, and searching his bookes, founde a booke of AstronomieAstronomy, called the worke of Ioannes de sacro busto de sphaera, with figures, some round …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2063 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The School of Beasts A14467

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… thou ſpeakeſt, may wel aduaunce & bragg him ſelfe, that he hath paſſed maſter in aſtronomieastronomy, and in the art of prognoſtications in the ſchoole of the Hedg-hogge: Seeing …
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… thou ſpeakeſt, may wel aduaunce & bragg him ſelfe, that he hath paſſed maſter in aſtronomieastronomy, and in the art of prognoſtications in the ſchoole of the Hedg-hogge: Seeing …
Pierre Viret · The School of Beasts · Open in the reader

Vindication of His Annotations A42469

Printed
AStronomieAstronomy and Judiciarie Aſtrologie diſtinguiſhed,
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AStronomieAstronomy and Judiciarie Aſtrologie diſtinguiſhed,
Thomas Gataker · Vindication of His Annotations · Open in the reader