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tetragonism ? Obs.|tɪˈtrægənɪz(ə)m|
[ad. Gr. τετραγωνισµός squaring, quadrature; see tetragon and -ism.]
The squaring of the circle; the quadrature of any curve.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Tetragonism, with some Foreign Writers is the same as the Quadrature of the Circle. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. II. xvii. 381 [They] affirm the Invention of the Tetragonism we are speaking of. 1727–41in Chambers Cycl.
So † teˈtragonist, one who attempts the squaring of the circle; † tetragoˈnistic, † tetragoˈnistical adjs., of or pertaining to tetragonism; tetragonistic(al calculus, the differential calculus.
1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. iii. 104 Such famous writers as Scaliger, Longomontanus, and other Tetragonists. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Tetragonistick Calculus, is the same with the Summatory or Differential Calculus of Leibnitz. 1727Bailey vol. II, Tetragonistical Calculus. |