The text includes a modest amount of Greek, which has been rendered using available fonts. Ruskin used the inverted breve popularized by Richard Porson, an 18th century Greek scholar, for the Greek diacritical mark "persipomeni", which had until the 19th century been printed as a tilde. It is the tilde that appears in most fonts, and is used in this text (e.g., νοῦς). Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872…
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