Jacques Ozanam Quote

The Usefulness of the Mathematicks in General, and of some Parts of them in Particular, in the common Affairs of Humane Life, has rendered some competent Knowledge of them very necessary to a great Part of Mankind, and very convenient to all the Rest that are any way conversant beyond the Limits of their own particular callings.

Preface; lead paragraph - A Mathematical Dictionary: Or; A Compendious Explication of All Mathematical Terms, 1702