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The Preface to the Reader.
met nie the one, or reberse the other, U hut to per [wade the
worlds that it is day-light wnen the Sun is upon the
Meridian b or at leaji to incnkate,zn ignorance of those
things, which have been manifestly known even a long
time sincc.
'the Method os this wor\ is wholly new, wherein we
have united and made one-, fetch various subjetts, as have
been the uncertain, obscure and tedious dtscourse os a great
number os various and large Volumes. What (hall we
say ? things sar asunder, we have laid together : things
uncertain, are here limited and reduced: things ob*
scure, we have made plain: things tedious, we have
made (hort: things erroneous, we have rectified and
corrected : things hard, we have made facil and easle ;
things various, we have collected : things (in appear-
ance ) hetorogene, we have made homogene : And in
a wordjhe whole Art we have reduced to certain heads-,
brought under a certain method ; limited to practical
rules ; and made it perspicuous 3 even to a very mean
Understanding
In the Composure os this Wor\ sbesides cur own O'o-
servations) we have made use of the beji Authors now ex-
tant, that we could possibly procure, or get into our hands i
wherein our labour was not small\ what in Reading,
Comparing, Transcribing, Choosing, Correcting, Di-
sposing, and Reviling every thing, in respcli of Matter ,
Form and Order, the which had we any President to
have sollowed, any Path to have traced, any Exam-
ple to have imitated, anyHdp to have consuhed, or any
Subject entire: Or otherwise , had the Number of our
Authors been small, their Maxims truths, their Rules
certain, their Meanings not obseure, or their Precepts
been reduced to Method and Order: tfe might not only-,
with much more ease, pleasure and certainty ; lest la-
hwti trouble and pains > greater perstkuity, pUinnest
met nie the one, or reberse the other, U hut to per [wade the
worlds that it is day-light wnen the Sun is upon the
Meridian b or at leaji to incnkate,zn ignorance of those
things, which have been manifestly known even a long
time sincc.
'the Method os this wor\ is wholly new, wherein we
have united and made one-, fetch various subjetts, as have
been the uncertain, obscure and tedious dtscourse os a great
number os various and large Volumes. What (hall we
say ? things sar asunder, we have laid together : things
uncertain, are here limited and reduced: things ob*
scure, we have made plain: things tedious, we have
made (hort: things erroneous, we have rectified and
corrected : things hard, we have made facil and easle ;
things various, we have collected : things (in appear-
ance ) hetorogene, we have made homogene : And in
a wordjhe whole Art we have reduced to certain heads-,
brought under a certain method ; limited to practical
rules ; and made it perspicuous 3 even to a very mean
Understanding
In the Composure os this Wor\ sbesides cur own O'o-
servations) we have made use of the beji Authors now ex-
tant, that we could possibly procure, or get into our hands i
wherein our labour was not small\ what in Reading,
Comparing, Transcribing, Choosing, Correcting, Di-
sposing, and Reviling every thing, in respcli of Matter ,
Form and Order, the which had we any President to
have sollowed, any Path to have traced, any Exam-
ple to have imitated, anyHdp to have consuhed, or any
Subject entire: Or otherwise , had the Number of our
Authors been small, their Maxims truths, their Rules
certain, their Meanings not obseure, or their Precepts
been reduced to Method and Order: tfe might not only-,
with much more ease, pleasure and certainty ; lest la-
hwti trouble and pains > greater perstkuity, pUinnest