The pathvvay to knowledg containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men.

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Title: The pathvvay to knowledg containing the first principles of geometrie, as they may moste aptly be applied vnto practise, bothe for vse of instrumentes geometricall, and astronomicall and also for proiection of plattes in euerye kinde, and therefore much necessary for all sortes of men.
Author: Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.
Publication: [Imprinted at London :: In Poules churcheyarde, at the signe of the Brasen serpent, by Reynold Wolfe. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,; Anno Domini. M.D.LI. [1551]]
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Subject terms: Geometry -- Early works to 1800.
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The firste common sentence. What so euer things be equal to one other thinge, those same bee equall betwene them selues.

Examples therof you may take both in greatnes and also in numbre. First (though it pertaine not proprely to geometry, but to helpe the vnderstandinge of the rules, whiche may bee wrought by bothe artes) thus may you perceaue. If the summe of monnye in my purse, and the mony in your purse be equall eche of them to the mony that any other man hathe, then must needes your mo∣ny

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and mine be e∣quall togyther. Likewise, if anye ij. quantities, as A and B, be equal to an other, as vn¦to C, then muste nedes A. and B. be equall eche to o∣ther, as A. equall to B, and B. equall to A, whiche thinge the better to peceaue, tourne these quantities into numbre, so shall A. and B. make fixteene, and C. as many. As you may perceaue by multipliyng the numbre of their sides togither.