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CHAP. IX.
Os Geometry.
Since Plato would not suffer any to enter his Sehool
who was or, not entred into Geome-
try ; and Xenocrates turned away his auditors, if un-
furnished with Geometry, Musick, and Astronomy ,
. r affirming they were the helps of Philofophy : lam
ott 4. ais0 bound by the love I bear to the bcss Arts,and your
ssudies, to give it you also in charge. Philo the Jew
calleth it the Princesse,and Mother of all Sciences:and
excellently was it said of Plau3That God did alwayes
^isdonijchap. yso/A«rj«r; but more divinely of Salomon, That God
did dispose of all his creatures according to measure,
number, and weight; that is, by giving the Heavens
their constant and perpetual motion; the Elements
their places and predominance according to leightness
or gravity, and every creature its number and weight,
without which, it were never able to stand upright,or
move.To the consederation of which depth of wisdom,
let us ufe the help of this most ingenious and useful
Art, worthy the contemplation and practice os the great-
est Princes; A Science offuch importance, that with-
r , out it, we can, hardly eate our bread, lie dry in our
ittlib'i.ca. 14' beds, buy, sell, or use any commerce else whatso-
ever.
Preclns in £k- The subjefr of Geometry, is the length, breadth,
clillib-t.ta. 14. and height of all things, comprised under the figures
of Triangles, Squares, Circles, and Magnitudes ofall
sorts, with, their terrnes or bounds.
It hath properly the namefrom Measu ring the Earth,
being first found out in ./Egypt; for when Wins with
his over ssowing, drowned and confounded the limits
of they; fields, certain of the inhabitants more ingeni-
■ ous than che rest, necessity compelling, found out the
Rules os Geometry; by the benefit whereof, aster the
fall
CHAP. IX.
Os Geometry.
Since Plato would not suffer any to enter his Sehool
who was or, not entred into Geome-
try ; and Xenocrates turned away his auditors, if un-
furnished with Geometry, Musick, and Astronomy ,
. r affirming they were the helps of Philofophy : lam
ott 4. ais0 bound by the love I bear to the bcss Arts,and your
ssudies, to give it you also in charge. Philo the Jew
calleth it the Princesse,and Mother of all Sciences:and
excellently was it said of Plau3That God did alwayes
^isdonijchap. yso/A«rj«r; but more divinely of Salomon, That God
did dispose of all his creatures according to measure,
number, and weight; that is, by giving the Heavens
their constant and perpetual motion; the Elements
their places and predominance according to leightness
or gravity, and every creature its number and weight,
without which, it were never able to stand upright,or
move.To the consederation of which depth of wisdom,
let us ufe the help of this most ingenious and useful
Art, worthy the contemplation and practice os the great-
est Princes; A Science offuch importance, that with-
r , out it, we can, hardly eate our bread, lie dry in our
ittlib'i.ca. 14' beds, buy, sell, or use any commerce else whatso-
ever.
Preclns in £k- The subjefr of Geometry, is the length, breadth,
clillib-t.ta. 14. and height of all things, comprised under the figures
of Triangles, Squares, Circles, and Magnitudes ofall
sorts, with, their terrnes or bounds.
It hath properly the namefrom Measu ring the Earth,
being first found out in ./Egypt; for when Wins with
his over ssowing, drowned and confounded the limits
of they; fields, certain of the inhabitants more ingeni-
■ ous than che rest, necessity compelling, found out the
Rules os Geometry; by the benefit whereof, aster the
fall