Excerpt from Library of Useful Knowledge, Vol. 1: Natural Philosophy; Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science; Mechanics; Hydrostatics; Hydraulics; Pneumatics; Heat; Optics; Double Refraction and Polarisation of Light; With an Explanation of Scientific Terms, and an Index
Tm: two great branches of the Mathematics, or the two mathematical sciences, are Arithmetic, the science of number, from the Greek word signifying number and Geometry, the science of figure, from the Greek words signifying measure of the earth,-land-measuring having first turned men's attention to it.
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