mathematicks

And, if such an one, who (for instance) hath waited on his master in one or two campagnes, and is able perhaps to copy the draught of a fortification from another paper; this is called mathematicks; and, beyond this (if so much) you are not to expect. "

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossus and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematicks; and the civility of these little citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

Religio Medici 2007

And what I understand is language, not mathematicks.

Cartography Young Geoffrion 2007

Sir John Pringle, ‘mine own friend and my Father’s friend,’ between whom and Dr. Johnson I in vain wished to establish an acquaintance, as I respected and lived in intimacy with both of them, observed to me once, very ingeniously, ‘It is not in friendship as in mathematicks, where two things, each equal to a third, are equal between themselves.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

Minorca as in London; but he may study mathematicks as well in

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

You have, perhaps, no man who knows as much Greek and Latin as Bentley; no man who knows as much mathematicks as Newton: but you have many more men who know

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

He, however, observed to Mr. Malone, that ‘though he made no great figure in mathematicks, which was a study in much repute there, he could turn an Ode of Horace into English better than any of them.’

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

I must study politicks and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematicks and philosophy.

America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

"You may be the worst mage in mathematicks in the history of the Guild."

Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

Cerryl fumbled out four coppers, wondering how often he could afford such luxury - despite Faltar's mathematicks.

Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999