The Mathematicall Praeface To Elements Of Geometrie Of Euclid O

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“How often, therfore, these fiue sundry sortes of Operations, do, for the most part, of their execution, differre from the fiue operations of like generall property and name, in...

What nede I, (for farder profe to you) of the Scholemasters of Iustice, to require testimony: how nedefull, how frutefull, how skillfull a thing _Arithmetike_ is? I meane, the L...

“+‡Geographie‡+ teacheth wayes, by which, in sũdry formes, (as _Sphærike_, _Plaine_ or other), the Situation of Cities, Townes, Villages, Fortes, Castells, Mountaines, Woods, Ha...

But of the sundry Mixture (as I may terme it) and concurse, diuerse collation, and Application of these _Harmonies_: as of thre, foure, fiue, or mo: Maruailous haue the effectes...

+Let 4. straight lines be drawen, in the inside of the Cone and Pyramis: makyng at their fall, on the perimeters of the bases, equall angles on both sides them selues, with the...

+‡Menadrie‡, is an Arte Mathematicall, which demonstrateth, how, aboue Natures vertue and power simple: Vertue and force may be multiplied: and so, to direct, to lift, to pull t...

by certaine order, nũber, forme, figure, and _Symmetrie_ mentall:” all naturall & sensible stuffe set a part. Now, then, it is euident, (Gentle reader) how aptely and worthely,...

of this land Natiue (the floure of whose worthy fame, can neuer dye nor wither) did write therof largely, at the request of _Clement the sixt_. The Arte carrieth with it, a wond...