arithmetical

"The worst sort of pretentious posturing," said the professor of counting and arithmetic at the University of London, adding "that for all this Newton's so-called arithmetical expertise, there is just nothing in this book that indicates that it has any relevance at all to the real data of astronomy."

Monty Python it is not - The Panda's Thumb 2005

St Paul's greatness is not, however, constituted by this rationalism -- for such we must term the arithmetical manipulation of the death of Jesus -- but by an entirely new appreciation of the Crucifixion.

The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903

As C himself takes the slate, her dark eyes, lifted an instant to his, are large with painful meaning, for she sees at a glance she must travel -- if the arithmetical is the true answer -- more than the whole distance now between them.

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

But on what the author of the Autocrat calls the arithmetical side, -- in the power of judging particular men and not general principles; in deciding who were the good men and who were not, he fell short of the ideal suggested by his legislative career.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

The Maya practiced a kind of arithmetical astronomy and so thought in terms of numbers rather than the geometrical orientation of western science.

The Books of Chilam Balam - part one 2008

The Maya practiced a kind of arithmetical astronomy and so thought in terms of numbers rather than the geometrical orientation of western science.

The Books of Chilam Balam - part one 2008

And his 'arithmetical' increase of food is nowhere explained or justified, nor supported by any data.

Malthus on population, with contempt 2006

_On the contrary, _ The Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 6; v, 4) that the mean of justice is to be taken according to "arithmetical" proportion, so that it is the real mean.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

He gives a kind of arithmetical measure of the decline of the devil's power by pointing out that 'he who was once equal to the angel who killed eighty thousand men in one night, is not able now, without a new commission, to take away the life of one Job.'

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

"arithmetical"; and when a high degree of each is demanded, the separation between knowledge and information is complete.

What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893