Which is very straunge to thinke on. +_For when Archimedes_+ (sayth he) +_did fasten in a Sphære, the mouynges of the Sonne, Mone, and of the fiue other Planets, he did, as the God, which (in Timæus of Plato) did make the world. That, one turnyng, should rule motions most vnlike in slownes, and swiftnes._+ But a greater cause of meruayling we haue by _Claudianus_ report hereof. Who affirmeth this _Archimedes worke_, to haue ben of Glasse. And discourseth of it more at large: which I omit. The Doue of wood, which the _Mathematicien Archytas_ did make to flye, is by _Agellius_ spoken of. Of _Dædalus_ straunge Images, _Plato_ reporteth. _Homere_ of _Vulcans Selfmouers_, (by secret wheles) leaueth in writyng. _Aristotle_, in hys _Politikes_, of both, maketh mention. Meruaylous was the workemanshyp, of late dayes, performed by good skill of _Trochilike. &c._ For in Noremberge, A flye of Iern, beyng let out of the Artificers hand, did (as it were) fly about by the gestes, at the table, and at length, as though it were weary, retourne to his masters hand agayne. Moreouer, an Artificiall Egle, was ordred, to fly out of the same Towne, a mighty way, and that a loft in the Ayre, toward the Emperour comming thether: and followed hym, beyng come to the gate of the towne. * [* ☞] Thus, you see, what, Arte Mathematicall can performe, when Skill, will, Industry, and Hability, are duely applyed to profe. [A Digression.] And for these, and such like marueilous Actes and Feates, Naturally, Mathematically, and Mechanically, wrought and contriued: [Apologeticall.]