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A13348	A very necessarie and profitable booke concerning nauigation, compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus, a publice professor in Rome, Ferraria, & other uniuersities in Italie of the mathematicalles, named a treatise of continuall motions. Translated into Englishe, by Richard Eden. The contents of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng	Taisnier, Jean, 1508-ca. 1562.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576.	1575 (1575)	STC 23659; ESTC S101247	53,484	76

that the knowledge of Archimedes and other men in suche commendable inuentions are the gyftes of God for as muche as the gyftes of God are free and not bounde to any nation or person And yf it may be graunted that the spirites of men or the spirite of God in men may be diuided as was the spirite of Moyses to twelue other or otherwyse that the spirites of dead men may reuiue in other after the opinion and transanimation of Pythagoras we may thynke that the soule of Archimedes was reuiued in Besson that excellent Geometer of our tyme whom I knewe in Fraunce the Maister of the engins to the Frenche kyng Charles the nienth vnder whom that lamentable slaughter at Paris was committed in the whiche were slayne so many noble men Whiche crueltie the sayde Besson abhorryng fled hyther into England and here dyed in the yeere 1573. and left in witnesse of his excellencie in that Art a booke in prynt conteynyng the fourmes and portractes of syxtie engins of marueylous strange and profytable deuice for diuers commodious and necessary vses Of the whiche for as muche as three of them that is to meane the .54 57. and 60. be engines cheefely parteynyng vnto Shyppes it shall not be from my purpose here to make a breefe rehearsal of them The .54 therefore as he wryteth is an engin not vnlyke vnto that whiche in auncient tyme Archimedes inuented for the Syracusians wherewith a man with the strength of onely one hande by helpe of the instrument called Trispaston which in our tongue some cal an endlesse Serue brought a Shyp of marueylous greatnesse from the lande into the sea in the syght of kyng Hieron and an infinite multitude whiche with all their force coulde not doo the same c. Of the which also our countrey man Roger Bacon a great Philosopher and no Nicromancer as that ignorant age slaundered him seemed to haue had some knowledge For in his booke of the marueylous power of Art and Nature he maketh mention of an Instrument as farre as I remember no bygger than a mans hande wherewith one man myght drawe to hym the strength of three hundred men And I well remember that at my beyng in Fraunce I hearde credible reporte that the Earle of Rocum●●●fe an Almaine made an engin wherewith the sayde kyng Charles when he was but .xvi. yeeres of age lyfted from the grounde a weyght whiche the strongest man in the courte was not able to remooue Almoste the lyke deuice we see in the bendyng of a Crossebowe Also at my being in Germanie in the citie of Strosburge a woorthy and learned Gentleman Monsieur de Saleno tolde me that in that citie one had inuented an engin of iron no bygger then a mans hande wherevnto fastenyng a rope with a hooke of iron and castyng the hooke vpon a wal tree or other place where it myght take holde he coulde with that engin lyft hym selfe vp to the wal or other place But to returne to the other two engines of Besson parteynyng to our purpose Therefore the .60 fygure as he there wryteth is the inuention of an engin scarsely credible wherewith by ballance and easie motion beyond the order of nature a Shyp may be so framed and gouerned that in the calme sea it shall mooue forewarde and in litle wynde hasten the course in too much wynde temper and moderate the same A thyng woorth the knowledge to a kyng as he sayth Of the thyrd engin which is the .57 fygure of his booke he wryteth thus An Artifice not yet diuulgate or set forth whiche placed in the pompe of a Shyp whyther the water hath recourse and mooued by the motion of the Shyp with wheeles and weyghtes dooth exactly shewe what space the Shyp hath gone c. By whiche description some doo vnderstand that the knowledge of the longitude myght so be founde a thyng doubtlesse greatly to be desyred and hytherto not certaynely knowen although Sebastian Cabot on his death bed tolde me that he has the knowledge thereof by diuine reuelation yet so that he myght not teache any man But I thinke that the good olde man in that extreme age somewhat doted and had not yet euen in the article of death vtterly shaken of all worldlye vayne glorie As touchyng whiche knowledge of the longitude to speake a litle more b● occasion nowe geuen it shal not be from the purpose to rehearse the saying of that excellent learned man Iohannes Feruclius in his incomparable booke De ab●●s rerum causis where in the Preface to king Henrie of Fraunce he writeth in this maner We haue put our helpyng hande to the Art of Nauigation and Geographie forby obseruation of the houres of the Equinoctialles we haue inuented howe in what so euer region or place of the worlde a man shal be he may knowe in what longitude it is which certaynly we haue not taken of the fountaynes of the ancientes but fyrste of all other as I thynke haue drawen it of ou● ryuers as our owne inuention c. So that saith be whiche way so euer you turne your eyes you may see that the posteritie hath not ryotously wasted the inheritance of Artes and sciences left them by their predecessors but haue greatly encreased the same and inuented other For certaynely the multitude of thinges incomprehensible is infinite and so therfore inuentions must needes also be infinite without ende And therefore as touchyng this thing sayth he to speake freely what I thynke they seeme to me to offende as muche whiche contende that the auncientes haue inuented and comprehended al thynges as doo they whiche attribute not vnto them the fyrst inuentions so depryuyng them of theyr ryght possession For whereas nowe by the benefite of almyghtie God who hath geuen vs his Christe and with hym all good thynges the lyght of trueth shyneth in our vnderstandyng by godly inspiration there is no iust cause why we shoulde in suche thynges thinke vs inferior to the auncientes Of which Argument who lysteth may reade more in the sayde Epistle of Pernelius And for as much as I haue made mention of such inuentions it shal not be from the purpose to describe the goodly instrumēt wherof Angelus Policianus in the fourth booke of Epistles to Franciscus Casa wryteth in this maner I haue receyued your Epistle wherein you signifie vnto me that you haue hearde of the strange engine or instrument Antomaton inuented and made of late by one Laurence a Florentine in the which is expressed the course and motions of the Planettes comformable and agreeyng with the motions of heauen And that for as muche as the reporte thereof is hardly beleeued you greatly desyre that I should write vnto you what certayne knowledge I haue of that thing wherein I am redie to obey your request And although nowe it be long since I sawe it yet as farre as I beare in memorie I wyll breefely declare the fourme reason and vse thereof And yf the

¶ A very necessarie and profitable Booke concerning Nauigation compiled in Latin by Ioannes Taisnierus a publike professor in Rome Ferraria other Vniuersities in Italie of the Mathematicalles named a treatise of continuall Motions Translated into Englishe by Richarde Eden The contentes of this booke you shall finde on the next page folowyng ¶ Imprinted at London by Richarde Iugge Cum priuilegio OMNIA DESVPER R. I. ❧ The Table 1 OF the marueylous nature and vertue of the Lode stone called in Latin Magnes where they be found and howe to knowe the best 2 Of continual motion by the sayd stone Magnes 3 Of the due proportion of whatsoeuer Ship and the disclosyng of certayne Mathematicall secretes 4 Of ebbyng and flowyng with their diuersities and the causes thereof 5 Demonstrations of proportion of motions local confutyng the opinion of Aristotle therein ❧ To the ryght woorshipfull Syr Wylliam Wynter Knyght Maister of the Ordinaunce of the Queenes Maiesties Shippes and Surueyor of the sayd Shippes Richarde Eden wysheth health and prosperitie IT is nowe about twelue yeeres paste gentle Maister Wynter since the curtesie and fauour which long before I founde at your hande mooued me no lesse for the good wyll that I haue euer borne you and your vertues to excogitate or deuise somethyng within the compasse of my poore abilitie that myght be a witnesse as it were a seale to testifie both that I haue not forgotten your gentlenesse also howe desyrous I am to pay the debtes of freendshyp which then I promised you also attempted to perfourme But beyng at that tyme preuented by meanes of my sodayne departyng out of Englande with my good Lorde the Vidame with whom I remayned for the space of ten yeeres vntyll the calamities of that miserable countrey with losse of goods and danger of lyfe hath dryuen me home agayne into my natiue countrey Where fyndyng my selfe at some leysure and desyrous to passe foorth parte of my tyme in some honest exercise which myght be profytable to many domagable to none and a meanes to geat me newe freendes the olde in my so long absence in maner vtterly wasted I chaunced in the meane tyme to meete with my olde acquayntance and freend Richard Iugge Printer to the Queenes Maiestie who had many yeeres before printed the Booke of Matten Curtes of the Art of Nauigation by me translated out of the Spanyshe tongue Whereof hauyng with him some conference he declared that he woulde prynt that booke agayne yf I woulde take the paynes to deuise some addition touchyng the same matter that myght be ioyned thereto At whiche tyme hauyng with me in the Latine tongue these bookes here folowyng printed whiche I brought with me out of Fraunce I soone agreed to his honest request to translate them into Englyshe Whiche beyng accomplyshed this onely remayned accordyng to the common custome to consecrate and dedicate the same to some worthie personage whose fame auchoritie and dignitie myght defende them from the euyll tongues of such as are more redie rather to reprooue other mens dooynges then to doo any good them selues And therfore gentle Maister Wynter knowing your aucthoritie and fame in well deseruyng and honorable seruice vnto your Prince and Countrey to be suche as all men thynke so well of and so greatlye esteeme to whom rather then vnto you may I dedicate this booke of Nauigation In consyderation whereof and the hope that I haue in your approoued curtesie fauourably to accept this dedication as proceeyng from one that desyreth nothyng more then to doo you seruice and remayne in your grace I shall thynke my trauayle wel bestowed and sufficiently recompenced yf it shall please you to accept the same as thankfully as I wyllyngly offer it vnto you For yf there be any thyng in me wherein I maye by good reason please my selfe it is cheefely this that I haue euer loued and honoured men of singuler vertue or qualitie in what so euer laudable Art or Science euen of those whereof I mee selfe haue litle knowledge as are Geometrie Astronomie Architecture Musicke Payntyng feates of Armes inuentions of Ingens and suche lyke Of the whiche this our age maye seeme not onely to contende with the Auncientes but also in many goodly inuentions of Art and wyt farre to exceede them For not to speake agaynst all the marueylous inuentions of our tyme what of theirs is to be compared to the Artes of Printyng makyng of Gunnes Fyre woorkes of sundry kyndes of artificial Fyres of suche marueylous force that mountaynes of moste harde rockes and stones are not able to resyst their violence but art by them broken in peeces and throwen into the ayre with suche violence that neyther the spirite of Demogorgon or the thunderboltes of infernal Pluto can doo the lyke What shoulde I here speake of the woonderfull inuentions of Fartalio in his booke De Arte maiori or of many other wherof Vannucius Beringocius wryteth in his booke entituled Pytotechnia As touchyng which terrible inuentions and the lyke although some men be of opinion that they were inuented by the instigation of the deuyll for the destruction of mankynde yet other weyghyng the matter more indifferently thynke that the inuention of Gunnes hath been the sauyng of many mens lyues because before the vse of them men were not woont so long tyme to lye batteryng in the besiegyng of Townes or Fortresses but in short space to come to hande strokes and to soughten feeldes to the great slaughter of great multitudes And seeyng that nowe our enimies the Turkes and other Infidels haue the vse of these deuylyshe inuentions as they name them it may be thought requisite for vs agaynst suche deuylles to vse also the lyke deuylyshe inuentions lest refusyng the same and geuyng place to euyl we shoulde wyllyngly suffer the kyngdome of the deuyll to triumphe ouer vs not otherwyse able to resyst and much lesse to ouercome so puissant and horrible enimies except besyde al hope myght aryse in our defence some newe Moyses or Elias or the Priestes of Iericho whiche onely with the noyse and sounde of Hornes or Trumpettes ouerthrewe the walles of the towne Neyther wyl the example of Dauid and Goliath or of Samson and the Philistines serue our turne at this tyme although I beleeue that the arme of the Lorde is not weakened yf there lacked not a Moyses with his rodde and woorthie Assystentes which myght helpe to holde vp his weerye arme But to returne to speake of ingens and ingenious inuentions whiche inuented and vsed to the glorie of God and defence of his people against the furie and tyrannie of Infidelles they may as woorthyly be called the gyftes of God as were the inuentions and Art of them that buylded eyther the Temple of Hierusalem or the Arke of God And yet is it there wrytten of those Artificers that God gaue them the spirite of knowledge and cunnyng in suche Artes. And therefore I thynke it may also be sayde without offence