For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.352, Courier Corporation
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