[f. as prec.: see -METRY.] Measurement of circles; ‘circle-squaring.’
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
1656. Wallis, Correct. of Hobbes, 116 (T.). I must tell you, that Sir H. Savile had confuted Joseph Scaliger’s cyclometry.
1866. De Morgan, in Athenæum, 27 Oct., 535/1. A friend of mine … will spend a thousand pounds … in black and white cyclometry.
Hence Cyclometric, -al, a., of or relating to cyclometry.
1838. Halliwell, Brief Acct. S. Morland, 27. Morland’s Cyclometrical treatise.
