OZIAS
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OZIAS
Diophante augment^s et reduits k la sp^cieuse" re-
ceived the praise of Leibnitz. "Recreations", trans-
lated later into English and well known to-day, was
published in 1694. He was elected member of the
Academy of Sciences in 1701. The death of his wife
plunged him into deepest sorrow, and the loss of his
foreign pupils through the War of the Spanish Suc-
cession, reduced him to poverty.
Ozanam was honoured more abroad than at home. He was devout, charitable, courageous, and of simple faith. As a young man he had overcome a passion for gaming. He was wont to say that it was for the doc- tors of the Sorbonne to dispute, for the pope to decide, and for a mathematician to go to heaven in a perpen- dicular line. Among his chief works are: "Table des sinus, tangentes, et .secantes" (Lyons, 1670); "Me- thode generale pour tracer des cadi-ans" (Paris, 1673) ; "Geometric pratique" (Paris, 1684); "Traite des lignesdu premier genre" (Paris, 1687); "Del'usagedu compas" (Paris, 1688); "Dictionnairemathematique" (Paris, 1691); "Cours de mathematiques" (Paris, 1693, 5 vols., tr. into English, London, 1712); "Traite de la fortification " (Paris, 1694); " Recreations mathe- matiques et physiques" (Paris, 1694, 2 vols., revised by Montucla, Paris, 1778, 4 vols., tr. by Hutton, Lon- don, 1803, 4 vols., revised by Riddle, London, 1844); "Nouvelle Trigonometrie" (Paris, 1698); "Methode facile pour arpenter" (Paris, 1699); "Nouveaux Ele- ments d'Algebre" (Amsterdam, 1702); "La Geogra- phic et Cosmographie" (Paris, 1711); "La Perspec- tive" (Paris, 1711).
FoNTENELLE, EloQC d'Ozatiam in (EuvreSt I, 401-408 (Paris,
1825) or in MSm. de V Acad, des sc, de Paris (HisL), ann. 1717.
Paul. H. Linehan.
Ozias in"U% '"fp, i- e., "Yahweh is my strength";
name of six Israelites mentioned in the Bible. (1)
Ozias, King of Juda (809-759 B. c), son and successor
of Amazias On the latter's death he was chosen king
though he was only sixteen years of age (IV Kings, xiv,
21, where, as in ch. xv also, the name Azarias appears
instead of Ozias, probably through a copyist's error;
cf. II Par., xxvi, 1). His long reign of fifty-two years
is described as pleasing to God, though he incurs the
reproach of having tolerated the "high places". This
stricture is omitted by the chronicler, who, however,
relates that Ozias was stricken with leprosy for having
presumed to usurp the priestly function of burning in-
cense in the Temple. Ozias is mentioned among the
lineal ancestors of the Saviour (Matt., i, S, 9). (2)
Ozias, son of Uriel, and father of Saul of the branch of
Caath (I Par., vi, 24). (3) Ozias, whose son Jonathan
was custodian of the treasures possessed by King
David outside of Jerusalem (I Par., xxvii, 25). (4)
Ozias, son of Harim, one of the priests who having
taken "strange wives", were forced to give them up
during the reform of Esdras (I Esdr., x, 21). (5)
Ozias, s(in of Misha, of the tribe of Simeon, a ruler of
Bethuliu (.luilitli, vii, 12K (6) Ozias, one of the ances-
tors of Judith, of the tribe of Ruben (Judith, viii, 1).
Lesetre in ViGOUROux, Diet, de la Bible, s. v.
James F. Dhiscoll.
