William Blake - Songs of Experience http://sparksinelectricaljelly.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/angels-and-demons-of-city.html   "Sanskrit matra, like the Greek, meter, meant both "Mother" and "measurement." Mathematics is, by derivation, "mother-wisdom." Root words for motherhood produced many words for calculation; metric, mensuration, mete, mens, mark, mentality; geo-metry, tri-gono-metry, hydro-metry, etc. Women did temporal and spatial calculations for so long that, according to … Continue reading Matra