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mathematicksMathematics

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
556 times in 252 works
Consistency
97.5% (556 of 570)
Reach if approved
~600 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mathematics
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
571 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (556 changes in 252 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 556)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … him out of the Subsidie. His Logicke is to prooueheauen in his chest. His MathematicksMathematics, Omnia suo commodo, non honestate mensurare, to measure the goodnesse of any thing by …
    With rule
    … him out of the Subsidie. His Logicke is to prooueheauen in his chest. His MathematicksMathematics, Omnia suo commodo, non honestate mensurare, to measure the goodnesse of any thing by …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … art, but hath some generall maxims, as in Law, in Physick, and in the MathematicksMathematics. There be canons or principles (call them what you will) that have influence into …
    With rule
    … art, but hath some generall maxims, as in Law, in Physick, and in the MathematicksMathematics. There be canons or principles (call them what you will) that have influence into …

    Richard Sibbes · The Christians End · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … are the ſtudies and knowledge of holy tongs, of Logicke, naturall Philoſophie, and the MathematicksMathematics, and theſe moderately knowne, & directed vnto the certeine ſcope and ende of Godlineſſe. For …
    With rule
    … are the ſtudies and knowledge of holy tongs, of Logicke, naturall Philoſophie, and the MathematicksMathematics, and theſe moderately knowne, & directed vnto the certeine ſcope and ende of Godlineſſe. For …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 1115 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … amaz'd, as at those Objects in the highest and remotest Regions of Faith; and MathematicksMathematics hath her Paradoxes that stand in as great danger of a contradiction as any …
    With rule
    … amaz'd, as at those Objects in the highest and remotest Regions of Faith; and MathematicksMathematics hath her Paradoxes that stand in as great danger of a contradiction as any …

    Richard Allestree · Forty Sermons · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … or deepnesse is the threefold dimension, which is called also height, and of the MathematicksMathematics, Metaphoricè, a body.
    With rule
    … or deepnesse is the threefold dimension, which is called also height, and of the MathematicksMathematics, Metaphoricè, a body.

    Henry Ainsworth · The Art of Logic · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our Libraries? Yea, or to know many of the moſt glorious Speculations in Phyſicks, MathematicksMathematics, &c. Which have given ſome the Title of Virtuoſi & Ingenioſi in theſe times, who …
    With rule
    … our Libraries? Yea, or to know many of the moſt glorious Speculations in Phyſicks, MathematicksMathematics, &c. Which have given ſome the Title of Virtuoſi & Ingenioſi in theſe times, who …

    Richard Baxter · Dying Thoughts Upon Philippians 1:23 · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … live to his ſervice in the World, who never read Logick, Phyſicks, Metaphyſicks or MathematicksMathematics; nor laid in that ſtock of artificial notions, which are the Glory and Utenſils …
    With rule
    … live to his ſervice in the World, who never read Logick, Phyſicks, Metaphyſicks or MathematicksMathematics; nor laid in that ſtock of artificial notions, which are the Glory and Utenſils …

    Richard Baxter · A Treatise of Knowledge and Love · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Firſt Unriddling, very admirable Inſtructions; All retired Parts of Knowledge in Anatomy, Aſtronomy, MathematicksMathematics, Algebra, Call for Underſtandings peculiarly fitted to them, and moſt attent Application, and Curious …
    With rule
    … the Firſt Unriddling, very admirable Inſtructions; All retired Parts of Knowledge in Anatomy, Aſtronomy, MathematicksMathematics, Algebra, Call for Underſtandings peculiarly fitted to them, and moſt attent Application, and Curious …

    Thomas Beverley · The Parable of the Ten Virgins · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Pulpits Patronage Against Unordained Usurpation A77901

  • Printed
    … it from a Mathematician: were we to argue ſome axiom or poſition, in the mathematicksMathematics, if we did not carry it by clear, convincing, undeniable concluſions, it were much …
    With rule
    … it from a Mathematician: were we to argue ſome axiom or poſition, in the mathematicksMathematics, if we did not carry it by clear, convincing, undeniable concluſions, it were much …

    Thomas Ball · The Pulpits Patronage Against Unordained Usurpation · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Of Education A89146

  • Printed
    … leſſe a ſhame to the commander. To ſet forward all theſe proceedings in nature & mathematicksMathematics, what hinders, but that they may procure, as oft as ſhall be needfull, the …
    With rule
    … leſſe a ſhame to the commander. To ſet forward all theſe proceedings in nature & mathematicksMathematics, what hinders, but that they may procure, as oft as ſhall be needfull, the …

    John Milton · Of Education · p. 3 · Open in the reader