The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed

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The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed
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Euclid.
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[1570 (3 Feb.]]
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"The elements of geometrie of the most auncient philosopher Euclide of Megara. Faithfully (now first) translated into the Englishe toung, by H. Billingsley, citizen of London. Whereunto are annexed certaine scholies, annotations, and inuentions, of the best mathematiciens, both of time past, and in this our age. With a very fruitfull præface made by M. I. Dee, specifying the chiefe mathematicall scie[n]ces, what they are, and wherunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed certaine new secrets mathematicall and mechanicall, vntill these our daies, greatly missed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00429.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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A Corollary logisticall.

Of my former Theoreme it followeth: Any two numbers being geuen, betwene which two we would haue two other numbers, middle, in continuall proportion:* 1.1 That if we multiply the square of the first number geuen, by the other geuen number (as if it were the fourth): the roote Cubik of that of come or product, shall be the second number sought: And farther, if we multiply the square of the other number geuen, by the first geuen number, the roote Cubike of that of come shall be the thirde number sought.

For (by my Theoreme) those rectangle parallelipipedōs made of the squares of the first & fourth, multiplied by the fourth & the first, accordingly, are equall to the Cubes made of the second & third numbers: which we make our two iddl proportionals Wherefore of those parallelipipedos (as Cubes) the Cubik rootes, by good and vsuall arte sought and found, geue the very two middle num∣bers desired. And where those numbers, are not by logisticall consideration accounted Cubik num∣bers, ye may vse the logistical secret of approching nere to the precise verytye:* 1.2 so that therof most easily you shall prcaue, that your fayle is of the snce neuer to be perceaued: it is to wete, as in a lyne of an inch long, not to want or exceede the thousand thousand part: or farther you may (infinitely approche at pleasure. O Mechanicall frend, be of good comfort, put to thy hand: Labor improbus, om∣nia vincit.

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