Part 11

+Geodesie+: more cunningly to Measure and Suruey Landes, Woods, Waters. &c. +Geographie.+ +Chorographie.+ +Hydrographie.+ +Stratarithmetrie.+

+‡Propre names‡ as+,

+Perspectiue,+--Which demonstrateth the maners and properties of all Radiations: Directe, Broken, and Reflected.

+Astronomie,+--Which demonstrateth the Distances, Magnitudes, and all Naturall motions, Apparences, and Passions, proper to the Planets and fixed Starres: for any time, past, present, and to come: in respecte of a certaine Horizon, or without respecte of any Horizon.

+Musike,+--Which demonstrateth by reason, and teacheth by sense, perfectly to iudge and order the diuersitie of Soundes, hie or low.

+Cosmographie,+--Which, wholy and perfectly maketh description of the Heauenlym and also Elementall part of the World: and of these partes, maketh homologall application, and mutuall collation necessary.

+Astrologie,+--Which reasonably demonstrateth the operations and effectes of the naturall beames of light, and secrete Influence of the Planets, and fixed Starres, in euery Element and Elementall body: at all times, in any Horizon assigned.

+Statike,+--Which demonstrateth the causes of heauines and lightnes of all thinges: and of the motions and properties to heauines and lightnes belonging.

+Anthropographie,+ Which describeth the Nũber, Measure, Waight, Figure, Situation, and colour of euery diuers thing contained in the perfecte body of MAN: and geueth certaine knowledge of the Figure, Symmetrie, Waight, Characterization, & due Locall motion of any percell of the said body assigned: and of numbers to the said percell appertaining.

+Trochilike,+--Which demonstrateth the properties of all Circular motions: Simple and Compound.

+Helicosophie,+--Which demonstrateth the designing of all Spirall lines: in Plaine, on Cylinder, Cone, Sphære, Conoïd, and Sphæroid: and their properties.

+Pneumatithmie,+--Which demonstrateth by close hollow Geometricall figures (Regular and Irregular) the straunge properties (in motion or stay) of the Water, Ayre, Smoke, and Fire, in their Continuitie, and as they are ioyned to the Elementes next them.

+Menadrie,+--Which demonstrateth, how, aboue Natures Vertue, and power simple: Vertue and force, may be multiplied: and so to directe, to lift, to pull to, and to put or cast fro, any multiplied, or simple determined Vertue, Waight, or Force: naturally, not, so, directible, or moueable.

+Hypogeiodie,+--Which demonstrateth, how, vnder the Sphæricall Superficies of the Earth, at any depth, to any perpendicular line assigned (whose distance from the perpendicular of the entrance: and the Azimuth likewise, in respecte of the sayd entrance, is knowen) certaine way, may be prescribed and gone, &c.

+Hydragogie,+--Which demonstrateth the possible leading of water by Natures law, and by artificiall helpe, from any head (being Spring, standing, or running water) to any other place assigned.

+Horometrie,+--Which demonstrateth, how, at all times appointed, the precise, vsuall denomination of time, may be knowen, for any place assigned.

+Zographie,+--Which demonstrateth and teacheth, how, the Intersection of all visuall Pyramids, made by any plaine assigned (the Center, distance, and lightes being determined) may be, by lines, and proper colours represented.

+Architecture,+--Which is a Science garnished with many doctrines, and diuers Instructions: by whose iudgement, all workes by other workmen finished, are iudged.

+Nauigation,+--Which demonstrateth, how, by the Shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time: a sufficient Shippe, betwene any two places (in passage nauigable) assigned, may be conducted: and in all stormes and naturall disturbances chauncing, how to vse the best possible meanes, to recouer the place first assigned.

+Thaumaturgike,+--Which geueth certaine order to make straunge workes, of the sense to be perceiued: and of men greatly to be wondred at.

+Archemastrie,+--Which teacheth to bring to actuall experience sensible, all worthy conclusions, by all the Artes Mathematicall purposed: and by true Naturall philosophie, concluded: And both addeth to them a farder Scope, in the termes of the same Artes: and also, by his proper Method, and in peculiar termes, procedeth, with helpe of the forsayd Artes, to the performance of complete Experiences: which, of no particular Arte, are hable (Formally) to be challenged.

+¶ Imprinted by Iohn Day.+

An. 1570. Feb. 25.

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Errors and Anomalies:

Unless otherwise noted, spelling and punctuation are unchanged. Errors are listed below, with the original form, if changed, shown in [brackets]. Unusual words include “fatch” (probably used as a variant of “fetch”) and the mathematical terms “sexagene” and “sexagesme”.

How, worldly goods: how, worldly dignitie [“o” in second “worldly” invisible] his most diligent hearers (so infinitely mought [hearers) so] the boundes, and duety of an Hydrographer [Hydographer] of the Grekes it is called Eteromekes [text unchanged: correct form is “Heteromekes”] τὸ ὁτὶ [accent unchanged] in our worldly affaires [wordly] fall to worke.❉. [Some text readers may not display the oversized-asterisk symbol.] Emptying the first. [Emptyting] Απὸ τάυτης τῆς ἡμέρας, περὶ παντὸς, Αρχιμήδει λέγοντι πιϛευτεόν [ἡμήρας ... πιϛευτέομ] of the suddeyne [snddeyne] that the right and absolute way may be had [he had] Georgic I: [The quoted segments, each ending in “&c.”, are 438-439; 451-457; 463-464.]

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