The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.

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The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published.
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Richardson, Alexander, of Queen's College, Cambridge.
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London :: Printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by Sam. Thomson at the White-Horse in Paul's Church-yard,
1657.
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Logic
Ramus, Petrus, -- 1515-1572
Talon, Omer, -- ca. 1510-1562
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"The logicians school-master: or, A comment upon Ramus logick.: By Mr. Alexander Richardson, sometime of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto are added, his prelections on Ramus his grammer; Taleus his rhetorick; also his notes on physicks, ethicks, astronomy, medicine, and opticks. Never before published." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91783.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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Certâ clausulâ terminat.

So that there is of an epistrophe in it: yet this di∣stribution cannot be amended, but only the fault noted. Rythmus of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as metrum of mensura. Rythmus is a Poetical number containing a cer∣tain number of syllables ending with a certain clause.

Object. But why are not the feet dactylus and spon∣daeus taught generally to them both?

Answ. No Rythmus only looks at the arithmetick of syllables, i. e. at the number of them; and not at

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the geometr. i. e. the quantity of them. Rythmus is before, because 'tis more ancient.

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