"Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven."
— Arithmetic

January 1, 1970

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Mathematics
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Robert Boyle. Usefulness of Mathematics to Natural Philosophy; Works (London, 1772), Vol. 3, p. 429. Reported in Moritz (1914).