SCHOLIUM

, a note, remark, or annotation, occasionally made on some passage, proposition, or the like.

The term is much used in geometry, and other parts of the mathematics; where, after demonstrating a proposition, it is used to point out how it might be done some other way; or to give some advice or precaution, in order to prevent mistakes; or to add some particular use or application of it.

Wolfius has given abundance of curious and useful arts and methods, and a good part of the modern philosophy, with the description of mathematical instruments, &c; all by way of Scholia to the respective propositions in his Elementa Matheseos.