Sentence:  I'm using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …/ And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation./ Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into <WSD>tables</WSD> …/ Western reason had entered the age of judgement. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.