Geometry is that of mathematical science which is devoted to consideration of form and size, and may be said to be the best and surest guide to study of all sciences in which ideas of dimension or space are involved. Almost all the knowledge required by navigators, architects, surveyors, engineers, and opticians, in their respective occupations, is deduced from geometry and branches of mathematics. All works of art constructed according to the rules which geometry involves; and we find the same laws observed in the works of nature. The study of mathematics, generally, is also of great importance in cultivating habits of exact reasoning; and in this respect it forms a useful auxiliary to logic.


Robert Chambers, Chambers's Information for the People (1875) Vol. 2

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Geometry is that of mathematical science which is devoted to consideration of form and size, and may be said to be the best and surest guide to study ...

Geometry is that of mathematical science which is devoted to consideration of form and size, and may be said to be the best and surest guide to study ...

Geometry is that of mathematical science which is devoted to consideration of form and size, and may be said to be the best and surest guide to study ...

Geometry is that of mathematical science which is devoted to consideration of form and size, and may be said to be the best and surest guide to study ...