Part 10

And though I haue ben pinched with straightnes of tyme: that, no way, I could so pen downe the matter (in my Mynde) as I determined: hopyng of conuenient laysure: Yet. if vertuous zeale, and honest Intent prouoke and bryng you to the readyng and examinyng of this Compendious treatise, I do not doute, but, as the veritie therof (accordyng to our purpose) will be euident vnto you: So the pith and force therof, will persuade you: and the wonderfull frute therof, highly pleasure you. And that you may the easier perceiue, and better remember, the principall pointes, whereof my Preface treateth,

I will giue you the +Groundplatt+ of my whole discourse, in a Table annexed: from the first to the last, somewhat Methodically contriued.

If Hast, hath caused my poore pen, any where, to stumble: You will, (I am sure) in part of recompence, (for my earnest and sincere good will to pleasure you), Consider the rockish huge mountaines, and the perilous vnbeaten wayes, which (both night and day, for the while) it hath toyled and labored through, to bryng you this good Newes, and Comfortable profe, of Vertues frute.

So, I Commit you vnto Gods Mercyfull direction, for the rest: hartely besechyng hym, to prosper your Studyes, and honest Intentes: to his Glory, & the Commodity of our Countrey. Amen.

Written at my poore House At Mortlake.

Anno. 1570. February. 9.

The “Groundplat” was printed in the form of a stemma, or tree, on an oversized fold-out page. The layout was impossible to reproduce for this e-text, so the information has been rearranged in nested-list form. Size markings (see note at beginning of e-text) are relative within each paragraph.]

J. DEE

+‡Here haue you (according to my promisse) the Groundplat of‡+ +my MATHEMATICALL Præface: annexed to Euclide (now first)+ published in our Englishe tounge. An. 1570. Febr. 3.

+‡Sciences, and Artes Mathematicall,‡ are, either+

+‡Principall,‡ which are two, onely,+

+Arithmetike.+

+‡Simple‡+, Which dealeth with Numbers onely: and demonstrateth all their properties and appertenances: where, an Vnit, is Indiuisible. +‡Mixt‡+, Which with aide of Geometrie principall, demonstrateth some Arithmeticall Conclusion, or Purpose.

+Geometrie.+

+‡Simple‡+, Which dealeth with Magnitudes, onely: and demonstrateth all their properties, passions, and appertenances: whose Point, is Indiuisible. +‡Mixt‡+, Which with aide of Arithmetike principall, demonstrateth some Geometricall purpose, as +EVCLIDES ELEMENTES+.

+‡The vse‡ whereof, is either,+

In thinges Supernaturall, æternall, & Diuine: By Application, Ascending. In thinges Mathematicall: without farther Application. In thinges Naturall: both Substãtiall, & Accidentall, Visible, & Inuisible. &c. By Application: Descending.

The like Vses and Applications are, (though in a degree lower) in the +Artes Mathematicall Deriuatiue+.

+‡Deriuatiue‡ frõ the Principalls: of which, some haue+

+‡The names of‡ the Principalls: as,+

+Arithmetike, vulgar: which considereth+

--Arithmetike of most vsuall whole numbers: And of Fractions to them appertaining. --Arithmetike of Proportions. --Arithmetike Circular. --Arithmetike of Radicall Nũbers: Simple, Compound, Mixt: And of their Fractions. --Arithmetike of Cossike Nũbers: with their Fractions: And the great Arte of Algiebar.

+Geometrie, vulgar: which teacheth Measuring+

+‡At hand‡+

All Lengthes.--+Mecometrie.+ All Plaines: As, Land, Borde, Glasse, &c.--+Embadometrie.+ All Solids: As, Timber, Stone, Vessels, &c.--+Stereometrie.+

+‡With distãce‡+ from the thing Measured, as,

+‡How farre‡+, from the Measurer, any thing is: of him sene, on Land or Water: called +Apomecometrie+. +‡How high or deepe‡+, from the leuell of the Measurers standing, any thing is: Seene of hym, on Land or Water: called +Hypsometrie+. +‡How broad‡+, a thing is, which is in the Measurers view: so it be situated on Land or Water: called +Platometrie+.

+‡Of which‡ are growen the Feates & Artes of+