Quaternion reference in the Vulgate

1 · John Cook · July 24, 2019, 5:16 p.m.
To contemporary ears “quaternion” refers to a number system discovered in the 19h century, but there were a couple precedents. Both refer to something related to a group of four things, but there is no relation to mathematical quaternions other than that they have four dimensions. I’ve written before about Milton’s use of the word […]...