The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record].

  • Robert Recorde
Date:
1556
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Credit: The castle of knowledge / [Robert Record]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    X K V* ' - * k • Vvf * THfi CA'S.TI^iE OF K N’OW L E D G E. jth^ earthe flioulde mooue outc of his place, dioic intoftiit^ m'ences Would then appeare> Vi r Dni^ Ivi! Mafter^ That is trulye to be gathb*ed: hdwe faeeft,Co^‘ pernicus a man of greatekaminge,of'niuthe ckjperienccf and of wondrefull diligehcem dbleru^tfori rh^the renettJ^df the opinion of Ariftarchns SamuiS,arid aiErhietkthat the^ earthe not only rhoueth c ircularlye about Ki'i owne cehtre^ but alfoimay be,yea arid is,continually but bfthe precife ce>f tic oCthe world 3s hundreth thbu&nd miles ;butbica'ufe the* vnderftanding of that controuerfy'dependetho£profoun>* der knowledg then in this Introdti&ion niay be vttCvcd coit- ueniemly, I will let it pafTetylifomeother time; c ( Scholan Nay iyr in good faithi.?tdeiire nottoheatefucH* vaine phantafies, fo farre againfte common reafon, and re^ ouonante to the confente of all the learned multitude of Wryters , and therefore letteit pafk for euer, and a day^ longer^ ^ ^ ^ Mafter* Yon are to yonge ^bjbe a good iudge in fo great - a matter: it palleth farre your learninge,and theirs alfo; that jf? are muche better learned then you,sjo improue his fuppd>| litionKy good argumentes, and thelrefore you were beft toj| condemne no thinge that you do not vnderftandii bui;iJ an other time,as I iaydj will (b declare his fiippdfitioii,that you fhall not only won der to hear it,but alfeperaduentufe'i be as earneft then to credite it,as you are now ^3 condemne iu in themeane ceaion let vs proceede forwarde in ouMor^ mer ordre, wherin by ordre of your fable 1 fliquld Ipeafe the cir^^s in heauen,both of theTrnurnbbe,.hoW many theyjf ... be, an4 alfb of thgir quantiries,how great they are, which is to be ^derftandin coparifon ttrthe Eqtriii6dliall,or fome fk^e, , otherigr^ate circle^. Then of tlTeir 6rdre,and their diftance ~ ^ a fonder: and h'kewaies what is their officeswnervnto they - . feruej^bf airwhichethinges,althdugh'lhaurallreadyj[ayde > , inotighe for fo briefe an inr?odudibtcau fe in r niimbre there may be fomedifagreemeritj^d in their quart
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