The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of MegaraDee, John
Philosophy
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
Dee, John
Geometry -- Early works to 1800; Mathematics -- Early works to 1800; Philosophy -- Early works to 1800
_Sol quo[que] & exoriens & quum se condet in vndas,
Signa dabit, Solem certissima signa sequuntur. &c.
-------- Nam sæpe videmus,
Ipsius in vultu varios errare colores.
Cæruleus, pluuiam denunciat, igneus Euros.
Sin maculæ incipient rutilo immiscerier igni,
Omnia tum pariter vento, nimbis[que] videbis
Feruere: non illa quisquam me nocte per altum
Ire, ne[que] a terra moueat conuellere funem. &c.
Sol tibi signa dabit. Solem quis dicere falsum
Audeat? -------- &c._
And so of Mone, Sterres, Water, Ayre, Fire, Wood, Stones, Birdes, and
Beastes, and of many thynges els, a certaine Sympathicall forewarnyng
may be had: sometymes to great pleasure and proffit, both on Sea and
Land. Sufficiently, for my present purpose, it doth appeare, by the
premisses, how _Mathematicall_, the _Arte_ of _Nauigation_, is: and how
it nedeth and also vseth other _Mathematicall Artes_: And now, if I
would go about to speake of the manifold Commodities, commyng to this
Land, and others, by Shypps and _Nauigation_, you might thinke, that I
catch at occasions, to vse many wordes, where no nede is.
Yet, this one thyng may I, (iustly) say. In _Nauigation_, none ought to
haue greater care, to be skillfull, then our English Pylotes. And
perchaunce, Some, would more attempt: And other Some, more willingly
would be aydyng, it they wist certainely, What Priuiledge, God had
endued this Iland with, by reason of Situation, most commodious for
_Nauigation_, to Places most Famous & Riche. And though,
[* Anno. 1567 S. H. G.]
(of * Late) a young Gentleman, a Courragious Capitaine, was in a great
readynes, with good hope, and great causes of persuasion, to haue
ventured, for a Discouerye, (either _Westerly_, by _Cape de Paramantia_:
or _Esterly_, aboue _Noua Zemla_, and the _Cyremisses_) and was, at the
very nere tyme of Attemptyng, called and employed otherwise (both then,
and since,) in great good seruice to his Countrey, as the Irish Rebels
haue * tasted:
[* Anno. 1569]
Yet, I say, (though the same Gentleman, doo not hereafter, deale
therewith) Some one, or other, should listen to the Matter: and by good
aduise, and discrete Circumspection, by little, and little, wynne to the
sufficient knowledge of that +Trade+ and +Voyage+: Which, now, I would
be sory, (through Carelesnesse, want of Skill, and Courrage,) should
remayne Vnknowne and vnheard of. Seyng, also, we are herein, halfe
Challenged, by the learned, by halfe request, published. Therof, verely,
might grow Commoditye, to this Land chiefly, and to the rest of the
Christen Common wealth, farre passing all riches and worldly Threasure.
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