Talk:Strähle construction

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Does anyone know what happened to the image that used to be on this page? BrianTung 05:50, 13 February 2006 (UTC)


 * 10:27, 10 December 2005 JesseW (talk | contribs | block) deleted "File:Strahle-construction.png" ‎ (WP:CSD Image #4 - "Images in category "Images with unknown source" or "Images with unknown copyright status"which have been on the site for more than 7 days, regardless of when uploaded.") Hyacinth (talk) 22:56, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

diacritic on Strahle's name in the title
The text of this article correctly gives Stråhle's name with a raised-ring diacritic on the "a". But the title of the article, and hence also its URL, repeats a longstanding error by spelling it "Strähle", with an umlaut. As the article explains, someone in the mid-1700s, perhaps in translating from Swedish to German, mistakenly converted the raised ring into a tiny raised "e", which was how umlauts were then written. That misspelling appeared in Marpurg's authoritative essay on temperaments in 1776, with the result many people since have misspelled Stråhle's name with an umlaut, nowadays typically written, in the modern style, as two dots.

The recent mathematical literature about Stråhle's construction has, sad to say, repeated the umlaut misspelling. But can't we finally start to fix that error? I am writing an article about Stråhle's construction that I hope to publish in a mathematical journal, and I would like to point to this fine Wikipedia article from my article. As things now stand, I will have to repeat the misspelling in order to give my reference!

LyleRamshaw (talk) 15:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)