Jacques Ozanam Quote

Mathematicks therefore is a Science which teaches or contemplates whatever is capable of Measure or Number as such. When it relates to Number, it is called Arithmetick; but when to measure, as Length, Breadth, Depth, Degrees of Velocity in Motion, Intenseness or Remissness of Sounds, Augmentation or Diminution of Quality, 6tc. it is called Geometry.

p. 1, The Introduction - A Mathematical Dictionary: Or; A Compendious Explication of All Mathematical Terms, 1702