"The preceding explanations establish... the propriety of the name [Greek: μάθημα, máthēma, 'knowledge, study, learning'] employed to designate the science... This denomination... to-day... signifies simply science [Latin scientia 'knowledge'] in general. Such a designation, rigorously exact for the Greeks, who had no other real science, could be retained by the moderns only to indicate the mathematics as the science, beyond all others—the science of sciences."