Identifying “Sagittarius”: The Contributions of Captain Powell Snell to the<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, 1791–92
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Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I would like to thank John M. Summer of Rogers Library, Francis Marion University, and Simon V. Elliott, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, for their assistance in obtaining photocopies of portions of Powell Snell's extremely rare Poetical Effusions from Fairy Camp for my use. Notes 1 See GM 60-ii (Aug. 1790): 718 (two translations of an epigram from Plato into Latin and English, respectively); 60-ii (Sept. 1790): 842 (four translations of Horace or Plato); 60-ii (Oct. 1790): 938 (two translations of Horace); and 60-ii (Supplement to 1790): 1236 (a translation of Horace). 2 Of the handful of contributions signed “W. F.” that appear in the GM over the next decade only two can be attributed with any assurance to the “W. F.” who had formerly used the “Sagittarius” pseudonym: translations of Horace appearing in 61-i (Jan. 1791): 67-68 and 64-i (Mar. 1794): 260, respectively. 3 The stanza refers to the threat of war between England and Spain in 1790 as a result of the Nootka Sound Crisis, precipitated by Spain's armed seizure of British merchantmen off Vancouver Island.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".