WARD, LOCK, AND CO., WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK: 10, BOND STREET. 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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