MICROGRAPHY AND MICROPHOTOGRAPHY 143 



measures 1-4 5th of an inch on the side. Upon this square 

 is written the whole of the second chapter of the Gospel 

 according to St. John the chapter which contains the 

 account of the marriage in Cana of Galilee. 



In order to estimate the space which the whole Bible 

 would occupy if written on the same scale as this chapter, 

 I have made the following calculation which, I think, will be 

 more easily followed and checked by my readers, than that 

 of Mr. Farrants. 



The text of the old version of the Bible, as published in 

 minion by the American Bible Society, contains 1272 

 pages, exclusive of title pages and blanks. Each page 

 contains two columns of 58 lines each, making 116 lines 

 to the page. This includes the headings of the chapters 

 and the synopses of their contents, which are, therefore, 

 thrown in to make good measure. We have, therefore, 

 1272 pages of 116 lines each, making a total of 147,552 

 lines. 



The second chapter of St. John has 25 verses contain- 

 ing 95 lines, and is written on the 1-202 5th of an inch, or, 

 in other words, it would go 2025 times on a square inch. 

 A square inch would, therefore, contain 95 X 2025 or 

 192,375 lines. This number (192,375), divided by the 

 number of lines in the Bible (147,552), gives 1.307, which 

 is the number of times the Bible might be written on a 

 square inch in letters of the same size. In other words, 

 the whole Bible might be written on .77 inch, or very little 

 more than three-quarters of a square inch. 



Perhaps the following gives a more impressive illustration : 

 The United States silver quarter of a dollar is .95 inch in 

 diameter, so that the surface of each side is .707 of a square 

 inch. The whole Bible would, therefore, very nearly go on 



