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Use "quadratures" in a sentence
"And whereas you taxe me, that I cannot live here without capitall sin; farre is the thought thereof from me: for, here I am regarded as the wife of Pagamino, but at Pisa, you reputed me not worthy your society: because, by the point of the Moone, and the quadratures of Geometrie; the"
"John Wallis (16161703) published Arithmetica infinitorum, which studied infinite series and infinite products, solved problems of quadratures, and found tangents by use of infinitesimals."
"When near opposition the full disc of the planet is visible, but at all other times it is gibbous, and approaches nearest to that of a half-moon when at the quadratures."