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"Boscovich professes to use Geometry alone: but the Geometry consists chiefly in denoting the length of every straight line by two capital letters instead of a single small letter: this strange notion of Geometry has survived to our own times in the University of Cambridge."

(from I. Todhunter, A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth, 1873, vol. 1; cited by S. Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900)