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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08589	To the English gentrie, and all others studious of the mathematicks which shall bee readers hereof. The just apologie of Wil: Oughtred, against the slaunderous insimulations of Richard Delamain, in a pamphlet called Grammelogia, or the mathematicall ring, or mirisica logarithmorum projectio circularis.	Oughtred, William, 1575-1660.	1634 (1634)	STC 18901A; ESTC S119424	30,064	34

matter Now make roome Here comes a new projection of circles enlarged either by a moveable and fixed circle or by a single projection with an Index at the peripheria or center for here is plenty and variety A wondrous secret it is that a man may divide either one circle or else foure or ten circles or as many as one will into 1000 equall parts But here our Vnvayler hath a worse rub in his way As spite would have it this was first hit upon by one Thomas Browne a Ioyner yet not one word of Browne onely I am a beame in his eye And herein lyeth a mystery of his skill He holdeth it no mastery to joyne forces with a Ioyner but by setting on a bold face if with petulant insolencies hee shall dare mee hee thinketh the attempt will bee more glorious Wherein I thanke him for putting a little difference in his estimation for matter of art betweene me and a Ioyner And yet there is another matter in it too Browne hath done it in a Serpentine line and he in just circles the very names of circle and Serpentine though the things themselves are the same the serpentine revolution being but two true semicircles described on severall centers may to the ignorant for such they are that Delamaine must perswade seeme to intimate things different in nature and so make good his claime against Browne This part he cuts off short in two leafes onely reserving all the rest that ought to be spoken thereof which he will find harder then he conceiveth to his large intentions But now vvoe is me therfore my punishment is at hand All the rest of this worthy Pamphlet which is thirteene leafes except the last page onely vvhich is also an Epistle to the Reader the very same promising one which was before in pag 22 the former is a most vile unmannerly and barbarous invective against me full of untruths full of malice full of scandall full of hypocrisy In pag 73 I am argued of spreading unsavoury rumours who God knowes have scarce so much as thought upon him till this scandalous Pamphlet came to my hands and of ignorance of his intentions whereas it partly hath and shall better appeare that I know his intentions well enough Then followeth pag 74 a fourth Epistle to the Reader short but very quick that the world hath bin abused as well as himselfe with a false rumour raysed by some rude ignorant tongue by their malicious phantasie and that he good soule did not intend to take this course but sought peace and his right by a private and friendly way but fayling of it his good intentions scorned and slighted maketh the ensuing discourse his plea. Noble Gentlemen excuse I pray you my most just indignation While he was ridiculous and vaine in his opprobries I dallyed with him now this so deepe taxing me of want of charity in refusing peace sought and prosecuting contention and discord contrary to my Christian duty pierceth to the quicke which only scandal-full calummation had it not been I had scarce vouchsafed an answer to all the rest Impudent and impure mouth for ever be thou stopped that delightest in slaunder and with lyes cuttest like a sharpe razor When didst thou ever seeke peace of me and I refused it when did I not but most mildly and modestly behave my selfe unto thee returning thee good words fo● ill which my Christian humility thou hast it seemeth in thy price interpreted abjectnesse and growne thereby more importunate and unreasonable What have I done what have I spoken at all with which thou canst justly charge me of wrong how many wayes hast thou most intollerably provoked me by raylings to my face and threatning thou wouldst overtop me by letters into the countrey and all to urge me to impatient speeches that thou mightest get occasion of a sute at law as thy selfe acknowledgedst to have a personall action at the Kings bench Barre against me When I was from London thou madest enquiry after me and my comming up in a distempered and threatning manner When I came to London thou soughtest me out and openly in the audience of divers witnesses reviledst me about my book instrumēt called The circles of proportion which yet I set not out nor ever sought to make one penny benefit by while I onely stood silent and amazed to see thy audaciousnesse and desperate conscience till at last extreamely provoked with thy braving reproaches I onely sayd what strange impudence is this You know that I know what is in you and that you have no skill in diverse arts which in your table you professe or if you have any you may thanke me for it and that you have and might have made better use and benefit of my friendship then by these challenges you are ever like to get And you answerd then belike I haue all I shal have And I said unlesse you can better deserve it Afterward when I was in the countrey above a quarter of a yeare together in derision of my calling you sent some Porter dressed up like a wandring Minister with a scandalous letter full of injurious expostulations of wronging you in print which I never did of stealing your invention which is as false of traducing the dead of intruding my selfe into your calling and neglecting mine owne and such like peaceable stuffe which letter I would not keepe lest by it I might hereafter be provoked against you but closing it up againe delivered it to the Porter willing him to returne it backe into your hands and bid you peruse it with a better mind And when afterward I sent up to you a Canon of sines tangents and secants which I had borrowed you asked if I had not also sent some scornefull answer to your letter After this dispairing to get any advantage out of my words you shamelessely exclaimed upon me to my Lord Marshall and to my Lord of London and to as many of the Nobility Gentrie and Clergie as you thought I was known to that so by depriving me of my friends and hopes you might procure my utter undoing Is this your Christianity Is this a private and a friendly way is this to seeke peace are these your good intentions which because you had not your wicked purpose in you hold as slighted and scorned and God grant that they may be ever so slighted and scorned that is frustrated of their divellish intentions and designes as many as have evill will against the innocent Thus have you seene in him honoured Gentlemen the lively character of a querulous clamorous injurious ill natured man that like an angry curre can together bite and whine crying out upon wrong when hee himselfe is the onely wrong-doer But reason is wee should heare his plea in which hee still playeth his owne part that is of scurrility calumniation out-facing and hypocrisy A pittifull case it was indeede that the world should spie out his vanity in assuming to himselfe the first discovery of

they were not in Latine or in French From thence you were advanced to keepe a Writing schoole in Drury lane and so had opportunity to heare the Lectures at Gresham Colledge and to have the benefit of conference with learned men When you now thought you could cant in the Instrumentary idiome you requested Iohn Thomson the maker of Mathematic Instruments in Hosier lane to helpe you to some Schollers And is not this a faire pretence to the Mathematics which you doubt not to call Our noble profession and our profession of so noble a Science But lest I may seem to make good that crime of Detraction wherewith he doth charge me by detracting from him both French and Latine contrary to the fashion of his name and the many shreds and thrummes of Latine he doth so artificially weave into the web of his Pamphlet I will without any slander tell you a true story Betweene foure and five yeares agoe a young Dutch Gentleman whose name was Dunheft comming into this Land so journed in a friends house of mine in London and because the Gentleman addicted himselfe to the warres hee was desirous to have the helpe of some learned Teacher of the Mathematics My friend thinking Richard Delamain to be such an one sent for him to whom the Gentleman spake I cannot say signifyed his desire in Latine but our learned Professor stared him in the face as if he wondred but answered him not which the Gentleman perceiving spake in French but that was more strange the Gentleman therefore making use of such little English as he had gotten asked him cannot you speak Latine No. Can you not speake French No. How shall I then that understand not English learne of you And so our grand Master went away as wise as he came without his Scholler which great misfortune of that poore young man to lose such learned fundamentall Mathematicall Doctrine may be a faire warning for all Gentlemen strangers to get them an English tongue in their heads and that quickly or else they are not like to have their sight holpen by this our great oculist and unvayler of the subject Richard Delamain But here by the way some malevolous Detractor may spightfully collect that if our Professors Latine and French and Greeke be but meere contrefaict which yet he doth so ventilate for his glory his Mathematics may well be suspected to be of the same stuffe God knowes how unwillingly and with how grieved a mind I write these things or so much as put pen to paper against him But most indignous and insufferable are the abuses offered by him to me his scandalls calumniations bravings and outfacings and all mixed with more then Thrasonicall arrogancy throughout his whole Pamphlet which that hee may bee sure to scatter every where he sendeth up and downe to his acquaintance by halfe dosens and therewith all a letter wherein he both requesteth to have them dispersed and nameth to whom and also bitterly inveigheth against me and threatneth me some of which letters have bin shewed to me and it may be I shall prevaile to have them produced Besides in his daily talke to every man he basely traduceth me and gloryeth in reading unto them his Pamphlet and his letter which he sent me into the Countrey marveilously pleasing himselfe at the sport he maketh with his scoffes and jests acting them with his hands and the gesture of his body and saying here I come over him finely here I give him a lash here I scourge him with other such like contemptuous speeches And also sendeth to me sometimes threatning sometimes scornefull messages challenging and even daring me to make him an answer What should I what can I doe in this case If I let him alone in all these his despightfull and in humane injuries all men may scorne me and the very boyes in the street point at me and he as hitherto he hath done by my patience and meekenesse grow into a higher degree of pride and insolencie and be more obfirmed I speake unfeignedly that in my heart I pitty him and wish him not the least hurt for he needeth it not but this he needeth to repent and be humbled that he may know himselfe and his friends I could have written much more and more sharpely but lesse then I have done and with greater mildnesse considering the haynousnesse of his injuries not only in print reviling and disgracing me publikely but also by secret slanders and malicious clamourings labouring utterly to discredite and undoe me I could not write The Instruments I doe not value or weigh one single penny If I had been ambitious of praise or had thought them or better then they worthy at which to have taken my rise out of my secure and quiet obscuritie to mount up into glory and the knowledge of men I could have done it many yeares before this pretender knew any thing at all in these faculties And when at William Forsters request I was contented to give way that he might publish them I had not the least thought to be seene or acknowleded by them but only to gratify and doe some good to Elias Allen whom he very spitefully yet more foolishly contrary to the generall repute had of him in this and other lands termeth an unexpert Workeman Now judge I beseech you had it not beene extreame simplenesse in me to stand by and hold the candle while a vaineglorious braggard who had by mine and Elias Allens meanes gotten the overture of those Instruments should so perk up himselfe in stolne feathers and audaciously out face me in mine owne and make Elias Allen his farmer for my free gift not to worke but at his devotion and for his profit Might not I then justly have beene laughed at and stiled the Bawde and Pandar of the vaine-glory and shamefull lucre of Delamain But he pleadeth hard for them you will say and I have not yet answered his allegations Neither indeed will I at all there is in them no shew of argument but onely presumptions braggings bravings outfacings beggings of credit scoffings at me and reproachings Will any Reader but an affectionate one and affectionate he had need to be and partiall be perswaded with such pittifull stuffe Honoured and most worthy Gentlemen I will lay downe those two Instruments the Horizontall and the circles of proportion at your feet and onely in the plaine word of an honest Christian man without any one braving lye open to you the very truth of both which I doubt not but you will acknowledge together with me and when I have spoken if you shall be pleased to adjudge and bestow them upon him let him take them with all my heart and make his best of them Of the Horizontall Instrument LOng agoe when I was a young student of the Mathematicall Sciences I tryed many wayes and devices to fit my selfe with some good Diall or Instrument portable for my pocket to finde the houre and try other conclusions by and

accordingly framed for that my purpose both Quadrants Rings and Cylinders and many other composures Yet not to my full content and satisfaction for either they performed but little or els were patched up with a diversity of lines by an unnaturall and forced contexture At last I considering that all manner of questions concerning the first motions were performed most properly by the Globe it selfe rectifyed to the present elevation by the helpe of a moveable Azumith I projected the Globe upon the plaine of the Horizon and applyed to it at the center which was therein the Zenith an Index with projected degrees for the moveable Azumith in which projection I first found what I had before with much studie and paines in vaine sought for And because I seldomely came to London where I might have the helpe of large Compasses and other Instruments for drawing the arches of very big circles I was forced to betake my selfe to such shift as Art would afford me and invented many Theoremes problemes and practices such as no man before that ever I could find had delivered for the finding out of the intersections and all and every points of all those circles by which I might draw the same and divide them being drawne Which rules I have yet in my paper booke carrying their antiquity in their very shew and are acknowledged by this challenger to have beene seene by him And though I invented them being young yet they will passe the skill of his gloriosity but even fitly to apply them to use much more to demonstrate them About thirty yeares since I presented one of them drawne with min● owne hand to the truely reverend Prelate Doctour Bylson Bishop of Winchester by whom I was made presbyter About five and twenty yeares agoe I bestowed one upon a noble Ladie the wife of a worthy and learned Knight then abiding neere the place where I live but since dwelling in Worcestershire which Lady with ingeniousnesse and solertie more then foeminine tooke delight in the speculation and use of the Globe And for her I writ many notes upon my Instrument the very same almost word for word which many yeares after I sent in a letter to Elias Allen and are they which Delamain acknowledgeth to have seene but slighteth I remember I did upon that Instrument tricke out in colours and mettall the coate armes of both those families joyned in pale the draught of which armes I yet have together with those rules And I doubt not but that noble Lady doth as yet keepe that little Instrument and will be pleased for the vindication of my credite to produce the same In the Spring 1618 I being at London went to see my honoured friend Master Henry Briggs at Gresham Colledge who then brought me acquainted with Master Gunter lately chosen Astronomie reader there and was at that time in Doctour Brooks his chamber With whom falling into speech about his quadrant I shewed him my Horizontall Instrument He viewed it very heedfully and questioned about the projecture and use thereof often saying these words it is a very good one And not long after he delivered to Master Briggs to be sent to me mine owne Instrument printed off from one cut in brasse which afterwards I understood he presented to the right Honourable the Earle of Bridgewater and in his booke of the Sector printed sixe yeares after among other projections setteth down this herein ingenuous that he did not challenge it to himselfe as our challenger doth but not ingenuously enough acknowledging from whom he had it But such is the providence of God I kept that very letter of Master Briggs wherein he sent me that print from Master Gunter dated from Gresham Colledge 2 Iun. 1618 and the postscript 4 Iune and which came to my hands Iune 10. In which letter are these wordes Master Gunter doth here send you the print of a Horizontall Diall of his drawing after your Instrument This very letter hath beene left by me in the hands of Elias Allen above these two yeares to be seene of any one that will require it Yea and our challenger himselfe in his Epistle to the Reader before his booke of the Horizontall quadrant doth acknowledge the sight of this letter and setteth downe the very words Which maketh me wonder at the stupidity of his audaciousnesse so without all shame and sense contradicting himselfe Vnlesse he thinke to have this evasion that I devised the projection but knew not the use of it when I had done I preethee R. D. why did I shew it to Master Gunter then was it only for the pictures sake And what did he like it for because it was so fairely lineated Or was it not for the excellent and copious use it hath above any other Instrument of that nature But heare his plea or rather his play and jugling with God and man and his owne conscience The extendure of Gods hand in his donations is manifold and where his spirit pleaseth to breath there is a doore opened they possesse the world with a contrary opinion thereby wronging God in his dispensation and man in his reputation Gentlemen doth not your haire stand an end with horrour at such prophane hypocrisy for shame repent but why doe I call for shame where is none About two yeares after I had shewed that my Instrument to Master Gunter I bestowed the very same individuall one upon a young Gentleman now a Baron my very honourable and most intire friend a man full of vertue full of learning full of all goodnesse and true nobility whose only defect and fault is an unquenchable thirst after knowledge and good literature who hath yet the very same in his custody and is at this present in London whose honourable word and testimony will confirme that he him selfe so many yeares agoe knew the uses of that Instrument and yet our chalenger never unvayled it to him nor dareth prescribe for so long time In Michaelmas Terme 1627 I came to London and Elias Allen having beene sworne his Majesties servant had a purpose to present his Majesty with some New-yeares gift and requested me to devise some pretty Instrument for him I answered that I have heard his Majesty delighted much in the great concave Dyall at White-hall and what fitter Instrument could hee have then my Horizontall which was the very same represented in flat and that I would upon the backeside set the theorics of the Sun and Moone And so by helpe of both sides Eclipses might be calculated with great facility He liked it well The Horizontall side was begunne by my direction I was not long at home but Master Allen being at a stand in his worke sent to me for helpe I writ him a large letter two sheets of paper long wherein I taught him the uses of the Instrument especially the Horizontall and afteward the fabric or delineation of it and how to find the semidiameters and centers of the severall circles both great and lesser and