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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05115	Via regia ad geometriam. = The vvay to geometry Being necessary and usefull, for astronomers. Geographers. Land-meaters. Sea-men. Engineres. Architecks. Carpenters. Paynters. Carvers, &c. Written in Latine by Peter Ramus, and now translated and much enlarged by the learned Mr. William Bedvvell.; Via regia ad geometriam. English	Ramus, Petrus, 1515-1572.; Bedwell, William, ca. 1561-1632.; Clarke, John, d. 1658.	1636 (1636)	STC 15251; ESTC S108337	93,096	205

VIA REGIA AD GEOMETRIAM THE VVAY TO GEOMETRY Being necessary and usefull FOR Astronomers Geographers Land-meaters Sea-men Engineres Architecks Carpenters Paynters Carvers c. Written in Latine by PETER RAMVS and now Translated and much enlarged by the Learned Mr. WILLIAM BEDVVELL LONDON Printed by Thomas Cotes And are to be sold by Michael Sparke at the blew Bible in Greene Arbour 1636. TO THE WORSHIPFVL M. IOHN GREAVES Professor of Geometry in Gresham Colledge London All happinesse SIR YOur acquaintance with the Author before his death was not long which I have oft heard you say you counted your great unhappinesse but within a short time after you knew not well whether to count your selfe more happie in that you once knew him or unhappy in that upon your acquaintance you so suddenly lost him This his worke then being to come forth to the censorious eye of the world and as the manner usually is to have some Patronage I have thought good to dedicate it to your selfe and that for these two reasons especially First in respect of the sympathy betwixt it and your studies Laboures of this nature being usually offered to such persons whose profession is that way setled Secondly for the great love and respect you alwayes shewed to the Author being indeed a man that would deserve no lesse humble void of pride ever ready to impart his knowledge to others in what kind soever loving and affecting those that affected learning For these respects then I offer to you this Worke of your so much honoured friend I my selfe also as it is no lesse my duty for his sake striving to make you hereby some part of a requitall least I should be found guilty of ingratitude which is a solecisme in manners if having so fit an opportunity I should not expresse to the world some Testimonie of love to you who so much loved him I desire then good Sir your kind acceptance of it you knowing so well the ability of the Author and being also able to judge of a Worke of this nature and in that respect the better able to defend it from the furie of envious Detractours of which there are not few Thus with my best wishes to you as to my much respected friend I rest Yours to be commanded in any thing that he is able IOHN CLERKE To the Reader FRiendly Reader that which is here set forth to thy view is a Translation out of Ramus Formerly indeed Translated by one Mr. Thomas Hood but never before set forth with the Demonstrations and Diagrammes which being cut before the Authors death and the Worke it selfe finished the Coppie I having in mine hands never had thought for the promulgation of it but that it should have died with its Author considering no small prejudice usually attends the printing of dead mens Workes and wee see the times the world is now all eare and tongue the most given with the Athenians to little else than to heare and tell newes And if Apelles that skilfull Artist alwayes found somewhat to be amended in those Pictures which he had most curiously drawne surely much in this Worke might have beene amended if the Authour had lived to refine it but in that it was onely the first draught and that he was prevented by death of a second view though perused by others before the Presse I was ever unwilling to the publication but that I was often and much solicited with iteration of strong importunity and so in the end over-ruled perswading me from time to time unto it and that it being finished by the Authour it was farre better to be published though with some errours and escapes than to be onely moths-meat and so utterly lost I would have thee Courteous Reader know that it is no conceit of the worth of the thing that I should expose the name and credit of the Authour to a publike censure yet I durst be bold to say had he lived to have fitted it and corrected the Presse the worke would have pointed out the workeman For I may say without vaine ostentation he was a man of worth and note and there was not that kinde of learning in which he had not some knowledge but especially for the Easterne tongues those deepe and profound Studies in the judgement of the learned which knew him well he hath not left his fellow behind him as his Workes also in Manuscript now extant in the publike Library of the famous Vniversity of Cambridge do testifie no lesse for him then being so grave and learned a Divine to meddle with a worke of this nature he gives thee a reason in his owne following Preface for his principall end and intent of taking this Worke in hand was not for the deepe and Iudiciall but for the shallowest skull the good and profit of the ●impler sort who as it was in the Latine were able to get little or no benifite from it Therefore considering the worth of the Authour and his intent in the Worke. Reade it favourably and if the faults be not too great cover them with the mantle of love and judge charitably offences unwillingly committed and doe according to the termes of equitie as thou wouldest be done unto but it is a common saying as Printers get Copies for their profit so Readers often buy and reade for their pleasure and there is no worke so exactly done that can escape the malevolous disposition of some detracting spirits to whom I say as one well Facilius e●t unicuivis nostrum aliena curiosè observare quam proproia negotia rectè agere It is a great deale more easie to carpe at other mens doings than to give better of his owne And as Arist. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnibus placere difficilimum est But wherefore Gentle Reader should I make any doubt of thy curtesie and favourable acceptance for surely there can be nothing more contrary to equitie than to speake evill of those that have taken paines to doe good a Pagan would hardly doe this much lesse I hope any good Christian. Read then and if by reading thou reapest any profit I have my desire if not the fault shall be thine owne reading haply more to judge and censure than for any good and benefit which otherwise may be received from it let but the same mind towards thine owne good possesse thee in reading it as did the Author in writing it and there shall be no neede to doubt of thy profit by it Thine in the common bond of love IOHN CLERKE The Authors Preface TWo things I feare me will here be objected against me The one concerneth my selfe directly The other mine Author and the worke I have taken in hand the translating of him Concerning my selfe I suppose some will aske Why I being a Divine should meddle or busie my selfe with these prophane studies Geometry may no way further Divinity and therefore is no fit study for a Divine This objection seemeth to smell of Brownisme that is of a