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Of Geometry. n
own Probleme, we ssali not see it among our ordinary
Stone cutters effected.
But in brief, the tiseyou fliill have of Geometry,will
be in stirvaying your lands, affording your opinion in
building a new, or translating ; makingyour Mills as-
well for grinding of corn,aa throwing forth water from
your lower grounds; bringing water far off for sundry
uses : Seeing the measure of Timber,stone,and the like,
( wherein Gentlemen many times are egregioussy abu-
ied and cheated by such as they trust); to contrive
much with small charge and in less room. Again,Ihould
you follow the warres ( as who knowes the bent of his
Fate?) you cannot withoutGeometry fortify your self,
take the advantage of hill or lcveil, fighr, order your
Battalia in square, triangle, cross, ( which form the
Prince of Orange hath now late taken up ) crescent-
wise; ( and many other forms Jovius Iheweth:) levell,
and plant your Ordnance, undermine, raise your half
Moons,Bulwarks, Casamates,Rampires,Ravelins,with
many other means as os offence and defence,by sorti-
sication.So that I cannot see how a Gentleman, espcci-
ally a Souldier and Commander, may beaccomplilhed
without Geometry, though not to the heighth of per-
section, yet at the leall to be grounded and furnilhed
with the principles and privy rules hereof. The Au-
thors 1 would commend unto you for entrance here*
into,are> in £ng\i(h3Cookj Principles,and the Elements
of Geometry written in Latin by P. Ramus, and trans-
latedby M. Do&or Hood3 sometime Mathematical! Le-
&urer in London, M. Blundevtfe, Euclide transsated
into Englilh. In Latin, you may have the learned Je-
suite Clavius, M&Unsthon3 Frisius3 Valtariui his Geome-
try Military. Albert Vurer hath excellently written >
hereof in high Dutch. And in French, Forcadellupon
JLuclide3 with sundry others.
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CHAP.
own Probleme, we ssali not see it among our ordinary
Stone cutters effected.
But in brief, the tiseyou fliill have of Geometry,will
be in stirvaying your lands, affording your opinion in
building a new, or translating ; makingyour Mills as-
well for grinding of corn,aa throwing forth water from
your lower grounds; bringing water far off for sundry
uses : Seeing the measure of Timber,stone,and the like,
( wherein Gentlemen many times are egregioussy abu-
ied and cheated by such as they trust); to contrive
much with small charge and in less room. Again,Ihould
you follow the warres ( as who knowes the bent of his
Fate?) you cannot withoutGeometry fortify your self,
take the advantage of hill or lcveil, fighr, order your
Battalia in square, triangle, cross, ( which form the
Prince of Orange hath now late taken up ) crescent-
wise; ( and many other forms Jovius Iheweth:) levell,
and plant your Ordnance, undermine, raise your half
Moons,Bulwarks, Casamates,Rampires,Ravelins,with
many other means as os offence and defence,by sorti-
sication.So that I cannot see how a Gentleman, espcci-
ally a Souldier and Commander, may beaccomplilhed
without Geometry, though not to the heighth of per-
section, yet at the leall to be grounded and furnilhed
with the principles and privy rules hereof. The Au-
thors 1 would commend unto you for entrance here*
into,are> in £ng\i(h3Cookj Principles,and the Elements
of Geometry written in Latin by P. Ramus, and trans-
latedby M. Do&or Hood3 sometime Mathematical! Le-
&urer in London, M. Blundevtfe, Euclide transsated
into Englilh. In Latin, you may have the learned Je-
suite Clavius, M&Unsthon3 Frisius3 Valtariui his Geome-
try Military. Albert Vurer hath excellently written >
hereof in high Dutch. And in French, Forcadellupon
JLuclide3 with sundry others.
I 5
CHAP.