A learned mathematician of the seventeenth century Ozanam by name a member of the Academy of Sciences and author of several distinguished works did not think it derogatory to his dignity to write under the title of Mathematical and Physical Recreations a book designed for the amusement of youth in which science lends itself to every pastime even jugglery and tricks of legerdemain
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