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_Terminology:_

  right line = straight line
  gemow (line) = parallel [gemew = twin]
  square = quadrilateral
    (also spelled squire, squyre)
    also = angle square as described under hexagons (“siseangles”)
  likeiamme = parallelogram [iam(me) = jamb = limb, side]
  longsquare = rectangle
  touch line = tangent
  cantle = segment of a circle [cantle = slice] ]


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                 The pathway to
                KNOWLEDG, CONTAI-
              NING THE FIRST PRIN-
          ciples of Geometrie, as they
         may moste aptly be applied vn-
         to practice, bothe for vse of
              instrumentes Geome-
             tricall, and astrono-
                   micall and
    also for proiection of plattes in euerye
          kinde, and therfore much ne-
           cessary for all sortes of
                      men.




  Geometries verdicte

    All fresshe fine wittes by me are filed,
  All grosse dull wittes wishe me exiled:
    Thoughe no mannes witte reiect will I,
  Yet as they be, I wyll them trye.




The argumentes of the foure bookes

The first booke declareth the definitions of the termes and
names vsed in Geometry, with certaine of the chiefe grounds
whereon the arte is founded. And then teacheth those
conclusions, which may serue diuersely in al workes
Geometricall.

The second booke doth sette forth the Theoremes, (whiche maye be
called approued truthes) seruinge for the due knowledge and sure
proofe of all conclusions and workes in Geometrye.

The third booke intreateth of diuers formes, and sondry
protractions thereto belonging, with the vse of certain
conclusions.

The fourth booke teacheth the right order of measuringe all
platte formes, and bodies also, by reson Geometricall.




TO THE GENTLE READER.

Excvse me, gentle reder if oughte be amisse, straung paths ar
not trodẽ al truly at the first: the way muste needes be
comberous, wher none hathe gone before. Where no man hathe geuen
light, lighte is it to offend, but when the light is shewed
ones, light is it to amende. If my light may so light some
other, to espie and marke my faultes, I wish it may so lighten
thẽ, that they may voide offence. Of staggeringe and stomblinge,
and vnconstaunt turmoilinge: often offending, and seldome
amending, such vices to eschewe, and their fine wittes to shew
that they may winne the praise, and I to hold the candle,
whilest they their glorious works with eloquence sette forth, so
cunningly inuented, so finely indited, that my bokes maie seme
worthie to occupie no roome. For neither is mi wit so finelie
filed, nother mi learning so largly lettred, nother yet mi
laiser so quiet and vncõbered, that I maie perform iustlie so
learned a laboure or accordinglie to accomplishe so haulte an
enforcement, yet maie I thinke thus: This candle did I light:
this light haue I kindeled: that learned men maie se, to
practise their pennes, their eloquence to aduaunce, to register
their names in the booke of memorie I drew the platte rudelie,
whereon thei maie builde, whom god hath indued with learning and
liuelihod. For liuing by laboure doth learning so hinder, that
learning serueth liuinge, whiche is a peruers trade. Yet as
carefull familie shall cease hir cruell callinge, and suffre
anie laiser to learninge to repaire, I will not cease from
trauaile the pathe so to trade, that finer wittes maie fashion
them selues with such glimsinge dull light, a more complete
woorke at laiser to finisshe, with inuencion agreable, and
aptnes of eloquence.

And this gentle reader I hartelie protest where erroure hathe
happened I wisshe it redrest.




                TO THE MOST NO-
      ble and puissaunt prince Edwarde the
       sixte by the grace of God, of En-
      gland Fraunce and Ireland kynge, de-
       fendour of the faithe, and of the
          Churche of England and Ire-
             lande in earth the su-
                  preme head.


It is not vnknowen to youre maiestie, moste soueraigne lorde,
what great disceptacion hath been amongest the wyttie men of all
nacions, for the exacte knoweledge of true felicitie, bothe what
it is, and wherein it consisteth: touchynge whiche thyng, their
opinions almoste were as many in numbre, as were the persons of
them, that either disputed or wrote thereof. But and if the
diuersitie of opinions in the vulgar sort for placyng of their
felicitie shall be considered also, the varietie shall be found
so great, and the opinions so dissonant, yea plainly
monsterouse, that no honest witte would vouchesafe to lose time
in hearyng thẽ, or rather (as I may saie) no witte is of so
exact remembrance, that can consider together the monsterouse
multitude of them all. And yet not withstãdyng this repugnant
diuersitie, in two thynges do they all agree. First all do agre,
that felicitie is and ought to be the stop and end of all their
doynges, so that he that hath a full desire to any thyng how so
euer it be estemed of other mẽ, yet he estemeth him self happie,
if he maie obtain it: and contrary waies vnhappie if he can not
attaine it. And therfore do all men put their whole studie to
gette that thyng, wherin they haue perswaded them self that
felicitie doth consist. Wherfore some whiche put their felicitie
in fedyng their bellies, thinke no pain to be hard, nor no dede
to be vnhonest, that may be a meanes to fill that foule panche.
Other which put their felicitie in play and ydle pastimes, iudge
no time euill spent, that is employed thereabout: nor no fraude
vnlawfull that may further their winning. If I should
particularly ouerrũne but the common sortes of men, which put
their felicitie in their desires, it wold make a great boke of
it self. Therfore wyl I let them al go, and conclude as I began,
That all men employ their whole endeuour to that thing, wherin
thei thinke felicitie to stand. whiche thyng who so listeth to
mark exactly, shall be able to espie and iudge the natures of al
men, whose conuersaciõ he doth know, though thei vse great
dissimulacion to colour their desires, especially whẽ they
perceiue other men to mislyke that which thei so much desire:
For no mã wold gladly haue his appetite improued. And herof
cõmeth that secõnde thing wherin al agree, that euery man would
most gladly win all other men to his sect, and to make thẽ of
his opinion, and as far as he dare, will dispraise all other
mens iudgemẽtes, and praise his own waies only, onles it be when
he dissimuleth, and that for the furtherãce of his own purpose.
And this propertie also doth geue great light to the full
knowledge of mens natures, which as all men ought to obserue, so
princes aboue other haue most cause to mark for sundrie
occasions which may lye them on, wherof I shall not nede to
speke any farther, consideryng not only the greatnes of wit, and
exactnes of iudgement whiche god hath lent vnto your highnes
person, but also y^e most graue wisdom and profoũd knowledge of
your maiesties most honorable coũcel, by whõ your highnes may so
sufficiently vnderstãd all thinges conuenient, that lesse shal
it nede to vnderstand by priuate readying, but yet not vtterly
to refuse to read as often as occasion may serue, for bokes dare
speake, when men feare to displease. But to returne agayne to my
firste matter, if none other good thing maie be lerned at their
maners, which so wrõgfully place their felicity, in so miserable
a cõditiõ (that while they thinke them selfes happy, their
felicitie must nedes seme vnluckie, to be by them so euill
placed) yet this may men learn at them, by those .ij. spectacles
to espye the secrete natures and dispositions of others, whiche
thyng vnto a wise man is muche auailable. And thus will I omit
this great tablement of vnhappie hap, and wil come to .iij.
other sortes of a better degre, wherof the one putteth felicitie
to consist in power and royaltie. The second sorte vnto power
annexeth worldly wisdome, thinkyng him full happie, that could
attayn those two, wherby he might not onely haue knowledge in
all thynges, but also power to bryng his desires to ende. The
thyrd sort estemeth true felicitie to consist in wysdom annexed
with vertuouse maners, thinkyng that they can take harme of
nothyng, if they can with their wysedome ouercome all vyces. Of
the firste of those three sortes there hath been a great numbre
in all ages, yea many mightie kinges and great gouernoures which
cared not greately howe they myght atchieue their pourpose, so
that they dyd preuayle: nor did not take any greatter care for
gouernance, then to kepe the people in onely feare of them,
Whose common sentence was alwaies this: _Oderint dum metuant_.
And what good successe suche menne had, all histories doe
report. Yet haue they not wanted excuses: yea Iulius Cæsar
(whiche in dede was of the second sorte) maketh a kynde of
excuse by his common sentence, for them of that fyrste sorte,
for he was euer woonte to saie: ἐίπερ γὰρ ἀδικεῖμ χρὴ,
τυραννΐδος περῒ κάλλιστομ ἀδικεῖμ, τ’ ἄλλα δ’ ἐυσεβεῖμ χρεῶμ.
Whiche sentence I wysshe had neuer been learned out of Grecia.
But now to speake of the second sort, of whiche there hathe been
verye many also, yet for this present time amongest them all,
I wyll take the exaumples of kynge Phylippe of Macedonie, and of
Alexander his sonne, that valiaunt conquerour. First of kinge
Phylip it appeareth by his letter sente vnto Aristotle that
famous philosopher, that he more delited in the birthe of his
sonne, for the hope of learning and good education, that might
happen to him by the said Aristotle, then he didde reioyse in
the continuaunce of his succession, for these were his wordes
and his whole epistle, worthye to bee remembred and registred
euery where.

Φΐλιππος Αριστοτέλει χαίρειμ.

ἔσθε μοι γεγονότα ὑομ. πολλὴμ οὖμ τοῖσ θεοῖσ χάριμ ἔχω, ὀυχ
ὅυτωσ ἐπῒ τῆ γεννήσει του παιδόσ, ὡσ ἐπῒ τῷ κατὰ τὴμ σὴμ ἡλικῒαμ
αὐτόμ γεγονέναι ἐλπΐζω γὰρ αὐτὸμ ὑπὸ σοῦ γραφέντα καὶ
παιδευθέντα ἄξιομ ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἑιμῶμ καὶ τῆς τῶμ τραγμάτωμ
διαδοχῆσ.

That is thus in sense,

Philip vnto Aristotle sendeth gretyng.

You shall vnderstande, that I haue a sonne borne, for whiche
cause I yelde vnto God moste hartie thankes, not so muche for
the byrthe of the childe, as that it was his chaunce to be borne
in your tyme. For my trust is, that he shall be so brought vp
and instructed by you, that he shall become worthie not only to
be named our sonne, but also to be the successour of our
affayres.


And his good desire was not all vayne, for it appered that
Alexander was neuer so busied with warres (yet was he neuer out
of moste terrible battaile) but that in the middes thereof he
had in remembraunce his studies, and caused in all countreies as
he went, all strange beastes, fowles and fisshes, to be taken
and kept for the ayd of that knowledg, which he learned of
Aristotle: And also to be had with him alwayes a greate numbre
of learned men. And in the moste busye tyme of all his warres
against Darius kinge of Persia, when he harde that Aristotle had
putte forthe certaine bookes of suche knowledge wherein he hadde
before studied, hee was offended with Aristotle, and wrote to
hym this letter.

Ἄλέζανδρος Αρισοτέλει εὖ πράττειμ.

Ὂυκ ὀρθῶσ ἐπόιησασ ἐκδοὺσ τοὺσ ἀκροαματικόυσ τῶμ λόγωμ, τΐνι
γὰρ διοισομην ἡμεῖσ τῶμ ἄλλωμ, ἐι καθ’ οὕσ ἐπαιδεύθημεν λόγουσ,
ὅυτοι πάντωμ ἔσονταιν κοινόι, ἐγὼ δὲ βουλοί μημ ἅμ ταῖσ περι τὰ
ἄριστα ἐμπειρΐαισ, ἢ τὰισ δυνάμεσι διαφέριμ. ἔρρωσο.    that is

Alexander vnto Aristotle sendeth greeting.

You haue not doone well, to put forthe those bookes of secrete
phylosophy intituled, ακροαματικοι. For wherin shall we excell
other, yf that knowledge that wee haue studied, shall be made
commen to all other men, namely sithe our desire is to excelle
other men in experience and knowledge, rather then in power and
strength. Farewell.

By whyche lettre it appeareth that hee estemed learninge and
knowledge aboue power of men. And the like iudgement did he
vtter, when he beheld the state of Diogenes Linicus, adiudginge
it the beste state next to his owne, so that he said: If I were
not Alexander, I wolde wishe to be Diogenes. Whereby apeareth,
how he esteemed learning, and what felicity he putte therin,
reputing al the worlde saue him selfe to be inferiour to
Diogenes. And bi al coniecturs, Alexander did esteme Diogenes
one of them whiche contemned the vaine estimation of the
disceitfull world, and put his whole felicity in knowledg of
vertue, and practise of the same, though some reporte that he
knew more vertue then he folowed: But whatso euer he was, it
appeareth that Socrates and Plato and many other did forsake
their liuings and sel away their patrimony, to the intent to
seeke and trauaile for learning, which examples I shall not need
to repete to your Maiesty, partly for that your highnes doth
often reade them and other lyke, and partly sith your maiesty
hath at hand such learned schoolemaysters, which can much better
thẽ I, declare them vnto your highnes, and that more largely
also then the shortenes of thys epistle will permit. But thys
may I yet adde, that King Salomon whose renoume spred so farre
abroad, was very greatlye estemed for his wonderfull power and
exceading treasure, but yet much more was he estemed for his
wisdom. And him selfe doth bear witnes, that wisedom is better
then pretious stones . yea all thinges that can be desired ar
not to be compared to it. But what needeth to alledge one
sentence of him, whose bookes altogither do none other thing,
then set forth the praise of wisedom & knowledg? And his father
king Dauid ioyneth uertuous conuersacion and knowledg togither,
as the summe of perfection and chief felicity. Wherfore I maye
iustelye conclude, that true felicity doth consist in wisdome
and vertu. Then if wisdome be as Cicero defineth it, _Diuinarum
atq; humanarum rerum scientia_, then ought all men to trauail
for knowledg in matters both of religion and humaine docrine, if
he shall be counted wyse, and able to attaine true felicitie:
But as the study of religious matters is most principall, so I
leue it for this time to them that better can write of it then I
can. And for humaine knowledge thys wil I boldly say, that who
soeuer wyll attain true iudgment therein, must not only trauail
in y^e knowledg of the tungs, but must also before al other
arts, taste of the mathematical sciences, specially Arithmetike
and Geometry, without which it is not possible to attayn full
knowledg in any art. Which may sufficiẽtly by gathered by
Aristotle not õly in his bookes of demonstration (whiche can not
be vnderstand without Geometry) but also in all his other
workes. And before him Plato his maister wrote this sentence on
his schole house dore. Αγεομέτρητοσ ὀυδὲισ ἐισΐτω. Let no man
entre here (saith he) without knowledg in Geometry. Wherfore
moste mighty prince, as your most excellent Maiesty appeareth to
be borne vnto most perfect felicity, not only by reasõ that God
moued with the long prayers of this realme, did send your
highnes as moste comfortable inheritour to the same, but also in
that your Maiesty was borne in the time of such skilful
schoolmaisters & learned techers, as your highnes doth not a
little reioyse in, and profite by them in all kind of vertu &
knowledg. Amõgst which is that heauẽly knowledg most worthely to
be praised, wherbi the blindnes of errour & superstition is
exiled, & good hope cõceiued that al the sedes & fruts therof,
with all kindes of vice & iniquite, wherby vertu is hindered, &
iustice defaced, shal be clean extrirped and rooted out of this
realm, which hope shal increase more and more, if it may appear
that learning be estemed & florish within this realm. And al be
it the chief learnĩg be the diuine scriptures, which instruct
the mind principally, & nexte therto the lawes politike, which
most specially defẽd the right of goodes, yet is it not possible
that those two can long be wel vsed, if that ayde want that
gouerneth health and expelleth sicknes, which thing is done by
Physik, & these require the help of the vij. liberall sciences,
but of none more then of Arithmetik and Geometry, by which not
only great thinges ar wrought touchĩg accõptes in al kinds, & in
suruaiyng & measuring of lãdes, but also al arts depend partly
of thẽ, & building which is most necessary can not be w^{t}out
them, which thing cõsidering, moued me to help to serue your
maiesty in this point as wel as other wais, & to do what mai be
in me, y^t not õly thei which studi prĩcipalli for lernĩg, mai
haue furderãce bi mi poore help, but also those whiche haue no
tyme to trauaile for exacter knowlege, may haue some helpe to
vnderstand in those Mathematicall artes, in whiche as I haue all
readye set forth sumwhat of Arithmetike, so god willing I intend
shortly to setforth a more exacter worke therof. And in the
meane ceason for a taste of Geometry, I haue sette forthe this
small introduction, desiring your grace not so muche to beholde
the simplenes of the woorke, in comparison to your Maiesties
excellencye, as to fauour the edition thereof, for the ayde of
your humble subiectes, which shal thinke them selues more and
more dayly bounden to your highnes, if when they shall perceaue
your graces desyre to haue theym profited in all knowledge and
vertue. And I for my poore ability considering your Maiesties
studye for the increase of learning generally through all your
highenes dominions, and namely in the vniuersities of Oxforde
and Camebridge, as I haue an earnest good will as far as my
simple seruice and small knowledg will suffice, to helpe toward
the satisfiyng of your graces desire, so if I shall perceaue
that my seruice may be to your maiesties contẽtacion, I wil not
only put forth the other two books, whiche shoulde haue beene
sette forth with these two, yf misfortune had not hindered it,
but also I wil set forth other bookes of more exacter arte,
bothe in the Latine tongue and also in the Englyshe, whereof
parte bee all readye written, and newe instrumentes to theym
deuised, and the residue shall bee eanded with all possible
speede. I was boldened to dedicate this booke of Geometrye vnto
your Maiestye, not so muche bycause it is the firste that euer
was sette forthe in Englishe, and therefore for the noueltye a
straunge presente, but for that I was perswaded, that suche a
wyse prince doothe desire to haue a wise sorte of subiectes. For
it is a kynges chiefe reioysinge and glory, if his subiectes be
riche in substaunce, and wytty in knowledge: and contrarye waies
nothyng can bee more greuouse to a noble kyng, then that his
realme should be other beggerly or full of ignoraunce: But as
god hath geuen your grace a realme bothe riche in commodities
and also full of wyttie men, so I truste by the readyng of
wyttie artes (whiche be as the whette stones of witte) they
muste needes increase more and more in wysedome, and
peraduenture fynde some thynge towarde the ayde of their
substaunce, whereby your grace shall haue newe occasion to
reioyce, seyng your subiectes to increase in substance or
wisdom, or in both. And thei again shal haue new and new causes
to pray for your maiestie, perceiuyng so graciouse a mind
towarde their benefite. And I truste (as I desire) that a great
numbre of gentlemen, especially about the courte, whiche
vnderstand not the latin tong, or els for the hardnesse of the
mater could not away with other mens writyng, will fall in trade
with this easie forme of teachyng in their vulgar tong, and so
employe some of their tyme in honest studie, whiche were wont to
bestowe most part of their time in triflyng pastime: For
vndoubtedly if they mean other your maiesties seruice, other
their own wisdome, they will be content to employ some tyme
aboute this honest and wittie exercise. For whose encouragemẽt
to the intent they maie perceiue what shall be the vse of this
science, I haue not onely written somewhat of the vse of
Geometrie, but also I haue annexed to this boke the names and
brefe argumentes of those other bokes whiche I will set forth
hereafter, and that as shortly as it shall appeare vnto your
maiestie by coniecture of their diligent vsyng of this first
boke, that they wyll vse well the other bokes also. In the meane
ceason, and at all times I wil be a continuall petitioner, that
god may work in all english hartes an ernest mynde to all honest
exercises, wherby thei may serue the better your maiestie and
the realm. And for your highnes I besech the most mercifull god,
as he hath most fauourably sent you vnto vs, as our chefe
comforter in earthe, so that he will increase your maiestie
daiely in all vertue and honor with moste prosperouse successe,
and augment in vs your most humble subiectes, true loue to
godward, and iust obedience toward your highnes with all
reuerence and subiection.

At London the .xxviij. daie of Ianuarie. M. D. L I.


    _Your maiesties moste humble seruant
      and obedient subiect,
        Robert Recorde._




                 +THE PREFACE,+
        declaring briefely the commodi-
           tes of Geometrye, and the
              necessitye thereof.


Geometrye may thinke it selfe to sustaine great iniury, if it
shall be inforced other to show her manifold commodities, or els
not to prease into the sight of men, and therefore might this
wayes answere briefely: Other I am able to do you much good, or
els but litle. If I bee able to doo you much good, then be you
not your owne friendes, but greatlye your owne enemies to make
so little of me, which maye profite you so muche. For if I were
as vncurteous as you vnkind, I shuld vtterly refuse to do them
any good, which will so curiously put me to the trial and profe
of my commodities, or els to suffre exile, and namely sithe I
shal only yeld benefites to other, and receaue none againe. But
and if you could saye truely, that my benefites be nother many
nor yet greate, yet if they bee anye, I doo yelde more to you,
then I doo receaue againe of you, and therefore I oughte not to
bee repelled of them that loue them selfe, althoughe they loue
me not all for my selfe. But as I am in nature a liberall
science, so canne I not againste nature contende with your
inhumanitye, but muste shewe my selfe liberall euen to myne
enemies. Yet this is my comforte againe, that I haue none
enemies but them that knowe me not, and therefore may hurte
themselues, but can not noye me. Yf they dispraise the thinge
that they know not, all wise men will blame them and not credite
them, and yf they thinke they knowe me, lette theym shewe one
vntruthe and erroure in me, and I wyll geue the victorye.

Yet can no humayne science saie thus, but I onely, that there is
no sparke of vntruthe in me: but all my doctrine and workes are
without any blemishe of errour that mans reason can discerne.
And nexte vnto me in certaintie are my three systers,
Arithmetike, Musike, and Astronomie, whiche are also so nere
knitte in amitee, that he that loueth the one, can not despise
the other, and in especiall Geometrie, of whiche not only these
thre, but all other artes do borow great ayde, as partly
hereafter shall be shewed. But first will I beginne with the
vnlearned sorte, that you maie perceiue how that no arte can
stand without me. For if I should declare how many wayes my
helpe is vsed, in measuryng of ground, for medow, corne, and
wodde: in hedgyng, in dichyng, and in stackes makyng, I thinke
the poore Husband man would be more thankefull vnto me, then he
is nowe, whyles he thinketh that he hath small benefite by me.
Yet this maie he coniecture certainly, that if he kepe not the
rules of Geometrie, he can not measure any ground truely. And in
dichyng, if he kepe not a proportion of bredth in the mouthe, to
the bredthe of the bottome, and iuste slopenesse in the sides
agreable to them bothe, the diche shall be faultie many waies.
When he doth make stackes for corne, or for heye, he practiseth
good Geometrie, els would thei not long stand: So that in some
stakes, whiche stand on foure pillers, and yet made round, doe
increase greatter and greatter a good height, and then againe
turne smaller and smaller vnto the toppe: you maie see so good
Geometrie, that it were very difficult to counterfaite the lyke
in any kynde of buildyng. As for other infinite waies that he
vseth my benefite, I ouerpasse for shortnesse.

Carpenters, Karuers, Ioyners, and Masons, doe willingly
acknowledge that they can worke nothyng without reason of
Geometrie, in so muche that they chalenge me as a peculiare
science for them. But in that they should do wrong to all other
men, seyng euerie kynde of men haue som benefit by me, not only
in buildyng, whiche is but other mennes costes, and the arte of
Carpenters, Masons, and the other aforesayd, but in their owne
priuate profession, whereof to auoide tediousnes I make this
rehersall.

  Sith Merchauntes by shippes great riches do winne,
    I may with good righte at their seate beginne.
  The Shippes on the sea with Saile and with Ore,
    were firste founde, and styll made, by Geometries lore.
  Their Compas, their Carde, their Pulleis, their Ankers,
    were founde by the skill of witty Geometers.
  To sette forth the Capstocke, and eche other parte,
    wold make a greate showe of Geometries arte.
  Carpenters, Caruers, Ioiners and Masons,
    Painters and Limners with suche occupations,
  Broderers, Goldesmithes, if they be cunning,
    Must yelde to Geometrye thankes for their learning.
  The Carte and the Plowe, who doth them well marke,
    Are made by good Geometrye. And so in the warke
  Of Tailers and Shoomakers, in all shapes and fashion,
    The woorke is not praised, if it wante proportion.
  So weauers by Geometrye hade their foundacion,
    Their Loome is a frame of straunge imaginacion.
  The wheele that doth spinne, the stone that doth grind,
    The Myll that is driuen by water or winde,
  Are workes of Geometrye straunge in their trade,
    Fewe could them deuise, if they were vnmade.
  And all that is wrought by waight or by measure,
    without proofe of Geometry can neuer be sure.
  Clockes that be made the times to deuide,
    The wittiest inuencion that euer was spied,
  Nowe that they are common they are not regarded,
    The artes man contemned, the woorke vnrewarded.
  But if they were scarse, and one for a shewe,
    Made by Geometrye, then shoulde men know,
  That neuer was arte so wonderfull witty,
    So needefull to man, as is good Geometry.
  The firste findinge out of euery good arte,
    Seemed then vnto men so godly a parte,
  That no recompence might satisfye the finder,
    But to make him a god, and honoure him for euer.
  So Ceres and Pallas, and Mercury also,
    Eolus and Neptune, and many other mo,
  Were honoured as goddes, bicause they did teache,
    Firste tillage and weuinge and eloquent speache,
  Or windes to obserue, the seas to saile ouer,
    They were called goddes for their good indeuour.
  Then were men more thankefull in that golden age:
    This yron wolde nowe vngratefull in rage,
  Wyll yelde the thy reward for trauaile and paine,
    With sclaunderous reproch, and spitefull disdaine.
  Yet thoughe other men vnthankfull will be,
    Suruayers haue cause to make muche of me.
  And so haue all Lordes, that landes do possesse:
    But Tennaunted I feare will like me the lesse.
  Yet do I not wrong but measure all truely,
    All yelde the full right of euerye man iustely.
  Proportion Geometricall hath no man opprest,
    Yf anye bee wronged, I wishe it redrest.

But now to procede with learned professions, in Logike and
Rhetorike and all partes of phylosophy, there neadeth none other
proofe then Aristotle his testimony, whiche without Geometry
proueth almost nothinge. In Logike all his good syllogismes and
demonstrations, hee declareth by the principles of Geometrye. In
philosophye, nether motion, nor time, nor ayrye impressions
could hee aptely declare, but by the helpe of Geometrye as his
woorkes do witnes. Yea the faculties of the minde dothe hee
expresse by similitude to figures of Geometrye. And in morall
phylosophy he thought that iustice coulde not wel be taught, nor
yet well executed without proportion geometricall. And this
estimacion of Geometry he maye seeme to haue learned of his
maister Plato, which without Geometrye wolde teache nothinge,
nother wold admitte any to heare him, except he were experte in
Geometry. And what merualle if he so muche estemed geometrye,
seinge his opinion was, that Godde was alwaies workinge by
Geometrie? Whiche sentence Plutarche declareth at large. And
although Platto do vse the helpe of Geometrye in all the most
waighte matter of a common wealth, yet it is so generall in vse,
that no small thinges almost can be wel done without it. And
therfore saith he: that Geometrye is to be learned, if it were
for none other cause, but that all other artes are bothe soner
and more surely vnderstand by helpe of it.

What greate help it dothe in physike, Galene doth so often and
so copiousely declare, that no man whiche hath redde any booke
almoste of his, can be ignorant thereof, in so much that he
coulde neuer cure well a rounde vlcere, tyll reason geometricall
dydde teache it hym. Hippocrates is earnest in admonyshynge that
study of geometrie must prepare the way to physike, as well as
to all other artes.

I shoulde seeme somewhat to tedious, if I shoulde recken vp,
howe the diuines also in all their mysteries of scripture doo
vse healpe of geometrie: and also that lawyers can neuer
vnderstande the hole lawe, no nor yet the firste title therof
exactly without Geometrie. For if lawes can not well be
established, nor iustice duelie executed without geometricall
proportion, as bothe Plato in his Politike bokes, and Aristotle
in his Moralles doo largely declare. Yea sithe Lycurgus that
cheefe lawmaker amongest the Lacedemonians, is moste praised for
that he didde chaunge the state of their common wealthe frome
the proportion Arithmeticall to a proportion geometricall,
whiche without knowledg of bothe he coulde not dooe, than is it
easye to perceaue howe necessarie Geometrie is for the lawe and
studentes thereof. And if I shall saie preciselie and freelie as
I thinke, he is vtterlie destitute of all abilitee to iudge in
anie arte, that is not sommewhat experte in the Theoremes of
Geometrie.

And that caused Galene to say of hym selfe, that he coulde neuer
perceaue what a demonstration was, no not so muche, as whether
there were any or none, tyll he had by geometrie gotten abilitee
to vnderstande it, although he heard the beste teachers that
were in his tyme. It shuld be to longe and nedelesse also to
declare what helpe all other artes Mathematicall haue by
geometrie, sith it is the grounde of all theyr certeintie, and
no man studious in them is so doubtful therof, that he shall
nede any persuasion to procure credite thereto. For he can not
reade .ij. lines almoste in any mathematicall science, but he
shall espie the nedefulnes of geometrie. But to auoyde
tediousnesse I will make an ende hereof with that famous
sentence of auncient Pythagoras, That who so will trauayle by
learnyng to attayne wysedome, shall neuer approche to any
excellencie without the artes mathematicall, and especially
Arithmetike and Geometrie.

And yf I shall somewhat speake of noble men, and gouernours of
realmes, howe needefull Geometrye maye bee vnto them, then must
I repete all that I haue sayde before, sithe in them ought all
knowledge to abounde, namely that maye appertaine either to good
gouernaunce in time of peace, eyther wittye pollicies in time of
warre. For ministration of good lawes in time of peace Lycurgus
example with the testimonies of Plato and Aristotle may suffise.
And as for warres, I might thinke it sufficient that Vegetius
hath written, and after him Valturius in commendation of
Geometry, for vse of warres, but all their woordes seeme to saye
nothinge, in comparison to the example of Archimedes worthy
woorkes make by geometrie, for the defence of his countrey, to
reade the wonderfull praise of his wittie deuises, set foorthe
by the most famous hystories of Liuius, Plutarche, and Plinie,
and all other hystoriographiers, whyche wryte of the stronge
siege of _Syracusæ_ made by that valiant capitayne, and noble
warriour _Marcellus_, whose power was so great, that all men
meruayled how that one citee coulde withstande his wonderfull
force so longe. But much more woulde they meruaile, if they
vnderstode that one man onely dyd withstand all Marcellus
strength, and with counter engines destroied his engines to the
vtter astonyshment of _Marcellus_, and all that were with hym.
He had inuented suche balastelas that dyd shoote out a hundred
dartes at one shotte, to the great destruction of _Marcellus_
souldiours, wherby a fonde tale was spredde abrode, how that in
Syracusæ there was a wonderfull gyant, whiche had a hundred
handes, and coulde shoote a hundred dartes at ones. And as this
fable was spredde of Archimedes, so many other haue been fayned
to bee gyantes and monsters, bycause they dyd suche thynges,
whiche farre passed the witte of the common people. So dyd they
feyne Argus to haue a hundred eies, bicause they herde of his
wonderfull circumspection, and thoughte that as it was aboue
their capacitee, so it could not be, onlesse he had a hundred
eies. So imagined they Ianus to haue two faces, one lokyng
forwarde, and an other backwarde, bycause he coulde so wittily
compare thynges paste with thynges that were to come, and so
duely pondre them, as yf they were all present. Of like reasõ
did they feyn Lynceus to haue such sharp syght, that he could
see through walles and hylles, bycause peraduenture he dyd by
naturall iudgement declare what cõmoditees myght be digged out
of the grounde. And an infinite noumbre lyke fables are there,
whiche sprange all of lyke reason.

For what other thyng meaneth the fable of the great gyant Atlas,
whiche was ymagined to beare vp heauen on his shulders? but that
he was a man of so high a witte, that it reached vnto the skye,
and was so skylfull in Astronomie, and coulde tell before hande
of Eclipses, and other like thynges as truely as though he dyd
rule the sterres, and gouerne the planettes.

So was Eolus accompted god of the wyndes, and to haue theim all
in a caue at his pleasure, by reason that he was a wittie man in
naturall knowlege, and obserued well the change of wethers, aud
was the fyrst that taught the obseruation of the wyndes. And
lyke reson is to be geuen of al the old fables.

But to retourne agayne to Archimedes, he dyd also by arte
perspectiue (whiche is a parte of geometrie) deuise such glasses
within the towne of Syracusæ, that dyd bourne their ennemies
shyppes a great way from the towne, whyche was a meruaylous
politike thynge. And if I shulde repete the varietees of suche
straunge inuentions, as Archimedes and others haue wrought by
geometrie, I should not onely excede the order of a preface, but
I should also speake of suche thynges as can not well be
vnderstande in talke, without somme knowledge in the principles
of geometrie.

But this will I promyse, that if I may perceaue my paynes to be
thankfully taken, I wyll not onely write of suche pleasant
inuentions, declaryng what they were, but also wil teache howe a
great numbre of them were wroughte, that they may be practised
in this tyme also. Wherby shallbe plainly perceaued, that many
thynges seme impossible to be done, whiche by arte may very well
be wrought. And whan they be wrought, and the reason therof not
vnderstande, than say the vulgare people, that those thynges are
done by negromancy. And hereof came it that fryer Bakon was
accompted so greate a negromancier, whiche neuer vsed that arte
(by any coniecture that I can fynde) but was in geometrie and
other mathematicall sciences so experte, that he coulde dooe by
theim suche thynges as were wonderfull in the syght of most
people.

Great talke there is of a glasse that he made in Oxforde, in
whiche men myght see thynges that were doon in other places, and
that was iudged to be done by power of euyll spirites. But I
knowe the reason of it to bee good and naturall, and to be
wrought by geometrie (sythe perspectiue is a parte of it) and to
stande as well with reason as to see your face in cõmon glasse.
But this conclusion and other dyuers of lyke sorte, are more
mete for princes, for sundry causes, than for other men, and
ought not to bee taught commonly. Yet to repete it, I thought
good for this cause, that the worthynes of geometry myght the
better be knowen, & partly vnderstanding geuen, what wonderfull
thynges may be wrought by it, and so consequently how pleasant
it is, and how necessary also.

And thus for this tyme I make an end. The reason of som thynges
done in this boke, or omitted in the same, you shall fynde in
the preface before the Theoremes.




  The definitions of the principles of
  _GEOMETRY_.


Geometry teacheth the drawyng, Measuring and proporcion of
figures. but in as muche as no figure can bee drawen, but it
muste haue certayne boũdes and inclosures of lines: and euery
lyne also is begon and ended at some certaine prycke, fyrst it
shal be meete to know these smaller partes of euery figure, that
therby the whole figures may the better bee iudged, and
distincte in sonder.

[Sidenote: A poincte.] _A Poynt or a Prycke_, is named of
Geometricians that small and vnsensible shape, whiche hath in it
no partes, that is to say: nother length, breadth nor depth. But
as their exactnes of definition is more meeter for onlye
Theorike speculacion, then for practise and outwarde worke
(consideringe that myne intent is to applye all these whole
principles to woorke) I thynke meeter for this purpose, to call
a _poynt or prycke_, that small printe of penne, pencyle, or
other instrumente, whiche is not moued, nor drawen from his
fyrst touche, and therfore hath no notable length nor bredthe:
as this example doeth declare.

  [Illustration: ∴]

Where I haue set .iij. prickes, eche of them hauyng both lẽgth
and bredth, thogh it be but smal, and thefore not notable.

Nowe of a great numbre of these prickes, is made a _Lyne_, as
you may perceiue by this forme ensuyng. ························
where as I haue set a numbre of prickes, so if you with your pen
will set in more other prickes betweene euerye two of these,
[Sidenote: A lyne.] then wil it be a lyne, as here you may see
-------- and this _lyne_, is called of Geometricians, _Lengthe
withoute breadth_.

But as they in theyr theorikes (which ar only mind workes) do
precisely vnderstand these definitions, so it shal be sufficient
for those men, whiche seke the vse of the same thinges, as sense
may duely iudge them, and applye to handy workes if they
vnderstand them so to be true, that outwarde sense canne fynde
none erroure therein.

Of lynes there bee two principall kyndes. The one is called a
right or straight lyne, and the other a croked lyne.

[Sidenote: A streghte lyne.] _A Straight lyne_, is the shortest
that maye be drawenne between two prickes.

[Sidenote: A crokyd lyne.] And all other lines, that go not
right forth from prick to prick, but boweth any waye, such are
called _Croked lynes_ as in these examples folowyng ye may se,
where I haue set but one forme of a straight lyne, for more
formes there be not, but of crooked lynes there bee innumerable
diuersities, whereof for examples sum I haue sette here.

  [Illustration: A right lyne.]

  [Illustration: _Croked lynes._]

  [Illustration: Croked lines.]

So now you must vnderstand, that _euery lyne is drawen betwene
twoo prickes_, wherof the one is at the beginning, and the other
at the ende.

  [Illustration]

Therefore when soeuer you do see any formes of lynes to touche
at one notable pricke, as in this example, then shall you not
call it one croked lyne, but rather twoo lynes: [Sidenote: an
Angle.] in as muche as there is a notable and sensible angle by
.A. whiche euermore is made by the meetyng of two seuerall
lynes. And likewayes shall you iudge of this figure, whiche is
made of two lines, and not of one onely.

  [Illustration]

So that whan so euer any suche meetyng of lines doth happen, the
place of their metyng is called an _Angle or corner_.

Of angles there be three generall kindes: a sharpe angle, a
square angle, and a blunte angle. [Sidenote: A righte angle.]
_The square angle_, whiche is commonly named _a right corner_,
is made of twoo lynes meetyng together in fourme of a squire,
whiche two lines, if they be drawen forth in length, will crosse
one an other: as in the examples folowyng you maie see.

[Sidenote: A sharpe corner.] _A sharpe angle_ is so called,
because it is lesser than is a square angle, and the lines that
make it, do not open so wide in their departynge as in a square
corner, and if thei be drawen crosse, all fower corners will not
be equall.

[Sidenote: A blunte angle.] _A blunt or brode corner_, is
greater then is a square angle, and his lines do parte more in
sonder then in a right angle, of whiche all take these examples.

  [Illustration: Right angles.]

  [Illustration: Sharpe angles.]

  [Illustration: Blunte or brode angles.]

And these angles (as you see) are made partly of streght lynes,
partly of croken lines, and partly of both together. Howbeit in
right angles I haue put none example of croked lines, because it
would muche trouble a lerner to iudge them: for their true
iudgment doth appertaine to arte perspectiue, and as I may say,
rather to reason then to sense.

But now as of many prickes there is made one line, so _of
diuerse lines are there made sundry formes, figures, and
shapes_, whiche all yet be called by one propre name, [Sidenote:
A platte forme.] _Platte formes_, and thei haue bothe _length
and bredth, but yet no depenesse_.

And _the boundes_ of euerie platte forme are lines: as by the
examples you maie perceiue.

Of platte formes some be plain, and some be croked, and some
parly plaine, and partlie croked.

[Sidenote: A plaine platte.] _A plaine platte_ is that, whiche
is made al equall in height, so that the middle partes nother
bulke vp, nother shrink down more then the bothe endes.

[Sidenote: A crooked platte.] For whan the one parte is higher
then the other, then is it named a _Croked platte_.

And if it be partlie plaine, and partlie crooked, then is it
called a _Myxte platte_, of all whiche, these are exaumples.

  [Illustration: A plaine platte.]

  [Illustration: A croked platte.]

  [Illustration: A myxte platte.]

And as of many prickes is made a line, and of diuerse lines one
platte forme, [Sidenote: A bodie.] so of manie plattes is made
_a bodie_, whiche conteigneth _Lengthe, bredth, and depenesse_.
[Sidenote: Depenesse.] By _Depenesse_ I vnderstand, not as the
common sort doth, the holownesse of any thing, as of a well,
a diche, a potte, and suche like, but I meane the massie
thicknesse of any bodie, as in exaumple of a potte: the
depenesse is after the common name, the space from his brimme to
his bottome. But as I take it here, the depenesse of his bodie
is his thicknesse in the sides, whiche is an other thyng cleane
different from the depenesse of his holownes, that the common
people meaneth.

Now all bodies haue platte formes for their boundes, [Sidenote:
Cubike.] so in a dye (whiche is called _a cubike bodie_) by
geomatricians, [Sidenote: Asheler.] and an _ashler_ of masons,
there are .vi. sides, whiche are .vi. platte formes, and are the
boundes of the dye.

[Sidenote: A globe.] But in a _Globe_, (whiche is a bodie rounde
as a bowle) there is but one platte forme, and one bounde, and
these are the exaumples of them bothe.

  [Illustration: A dye or ashler.]

  [Illustration: A globe.]

But because you shall not muse what I dooe call _a bound_,
[Sidenote: A bounde.] I mean therby a generall name, betokening
the beginning, end and side, of any forme.

[Sidenote: Forme, Fygure.] _A forme, figure, or shape_, is that
thyng that is inclosed within one bond or manie bondes, so that
you vnderstand that shape, that the eye doth discerne, and not
the substance of the bodie.

Of _figures_ there be manie sortes, for either thei be made of
prickes, lines, or platte formes. Not withstandyng to speake
properlie, _a figure_ is euer made by platte formes, and not of
bare lines vnclosed, neither yet of prickes.

Yet for the lighter forme of teachyng, it shall not be vnsemely
to call all suche shapes, formes and figures, whiche y^e eye
maie discerne distinctly.

And first to begin with prickes, there maie be made diuerse
formes of them, as partely here doeth folowe.

  [Illustration:
    A lynearic numbre.
    Trianguler numbres
    Longsquare nũbre.
    Iust square numbres
    a threcornered spire.
    A square spire.]

And so maie there be infinite formes more, whiche I omitte for
this time, cõsidering that their knowledg appertaineth more to
Arithmetike figurall, than to Geometrie.

But yet one name of a pricke, whiche he taketh rather of his
place then of his fourme, maie I not ouerpasse. And that is,
when a pricke standeth in the middell of a circle (as no circle
can be made by cõpasse without it) then is it called _a centre_.
[Sidenote: A centre] And thereof doe masons, and other worke
menne call that patron, a _centre_, whereby thei drawe the
lines, for iust hewyng of stones for arches, vaultes, and
chimneies, because the chefe vse of that patron is wrought by
findyng that pricke or centre, from whiche all the lynes are
drawen, as in the thirde booke it doeth appere.

Lynes make diuerse figures also, though properly thei maie not
be called figures, as I said before (vnles the lines do close)
but onely for easie maner of teachyng, all shall be called
figures, that the eye can discerne, of whiche this is one, when
one line lyeth flatte (whiche is named [Sidenote: A ground
line.] the _ground line_) and an other commeth downe on it, and
is called [Sidenote: A perpendicular.] [Sidenote: A plume lyne.]
a _perpendiculer_ or _plũme lyne_, as in this example you may
see. where .A.B. is the grounde line, and C.D. the plumbe line.

  [Illustration]

And like waies in this figure there are three lines, the grounde
lyne whiche is A.B. the plumme line that is A.C. and the _bias
line_, whiche goeth from the one of thẽ to the other, and lieth
against the right corner in such a figure whiche is here .C.B.

  [Illustration]

But consideryng that I shall haue occasion to declare sundry
figures anon, I will first shew some certaine varietees of lines
that close no figures, but are bare lynes, and of the other
lines will I make mencion in the description of the figures.

  [Illustration: tortuouse paralleles.]

[Sidenote: Parallelys]

[Sidenote: Gemowe lynes.]

_Paralleles_, or _gemowe lynes_ be suche lines as be drawen
foorth still in one distaunce, and are no nerer in one place
then in an other, for and if they be nerer at one ende then at
the other, then are they no paralleles, but maie bee called
_bought lynes_, and loe here exaumples of them bothe.

  [Illustration: parallelis.]

  [Illustration: bought lines]

  [Illustration: parallelis: circular. Concentrikes.]

I haue added also _paralleles tortuouse_, whiche bowe cõtrarie
waies with their two endes: and _paralleles circular_, whiche be
lyke vnperfecte compasses: for if they bee whole circles,
[Sidenote: Concentrikes] then are they called _cõcentrikes_,
that is to saie, circles drawẽ on one centre.

Here might I note the error of good _Albert Durer_, which
affirmeth that no perpendicular lines can be paralleles. which
errour doeth spring partlie of ouersight of the difference of a
streight line, and partlie of mistakyng certain principles
geometrical, which al I wil let passe vntil an other tyme, and
wil not blame him, which hath deserued worthyly infinite praise.

And to returne to my matter. [Sidenote: A twine line.] an other
fashioned line is there, which is named a twine or twist line,
and it goeth as a wreyth about some other bodie. [Sidenote:
A spirall line.] And an other sorte of lines is there, that is
called a _spirall line_, [Sidenote: A worme line.] or a _worm
line_, whiche representeth an apparant forme of many circles,
where there is not one in dede: of these .ii. kindes of lines,
these be examples.

  [Illustration: A twiste lyne.]

  [Illustration: A spirail lyne]

  [Illustration: A touche lyne.]

[Sidenote: A tuch line.]

_A touche lyne_, is a line that runneth a long by the edge of a
circle, onely touching it, but doth not crosse the circumference
of it, as in this exaumple you maie see.

[Sidenote: A corde,]

And when that a line doth crosse the edg of the circle, thẽ is
it called _a cord_, as you shall see anon in the speakynge of
circles.

[Sidenote: Matche corners]

In the meane season must I not omit to declare what angles bee
called _matche corners_, that is to saie, suche as stande
directly one against the other, when twoo lines be drawen a
crosse, as here appereth.

  [Illustration: Matche corner. Matche corner.]

Where A. and B. are matche corners, so are C. and D. but not A.
and C. nother D. and A.

Nowe will I beginne to speak of figures, that be properly so
called, of whiche all be made of diuerse lines, except onely a
circle, an egge forme, and a tunne forme, which .iij. haue no
angle and haue but one line for their bounde, and an eye fourme
whiche is made of one lyne, and hath an angle onely.

[Sidenote: A circle.]

_A circle_ is a figure made and enclosed with one line, and hath
in the middell of it a pricke or centre, from whiche all the
lines that be drawen to the circumference are equall all in
length, as here you see.

  [Illustration]

[Sidenote: Circumference.] And the line that encloseth the whole
compasse, is called the _circumference_.

[Sidenote: A diameter.] And all the lines that bee drawen crosse
the circle, and goe by the centre, are named _diameters_, whose
halfe, I meane from the center to the circumference any waie,
[Sidenote: Semidiameter.] is called the _semidiameter_, or
_halfe diameter_.

  [Illustration]

But and if the line goe crosse the circle, and passe beside the
centre, [Sidenote: A cord, or a stringlyne.] then is it called
_a corde_, or _a stryng line_, as I said before, and as this
exaumple sheweth: where A. is the corde. And the compassed line
that aunswereth to it, [Sidenote: An archline] is called _an
arche lyne_, [Sidenote: A bowline.] or _a bowe lyne_, whiche
here marked with B. and the diameter with C.

  [Illustration]

But and if that part be separate from the rest of the circle (as
in this exãple you see) then ar both partes called cãtelles,
[Sidenote: A cantle] the one the _greatter cantle_ as E. and the
other the _lesser cantle_, as D. And if it be parted iuste by
the centre (as you see in F.) [Sidenote: A semyecircle] then is
it called a _semicircle_, or _halfe compasse_.

  [Illustration]

Sometimes it happeneth that a cantle is cutte out with two lynes
drawen from the centre to the circumference (as G. is)
[Sidenote: A nooke cantle] and then maie it be called a _nooke
cantle_, and if it be not parted from the reste of the circle
(as you see in H.) [Sidenote: A nooke.] then is it called a
_nooke_ plainely without any addicion. And the compassed lyne in
it is called an _arche lyne_, as the exaumple here doeth shewe.

  [Illustration: An arche.]

Nowe haue you heard as touchyng circles, meetely sufficient
instruction, so that it should seme nedeles to speake any more
of figures in that kynde, saue that there doeth yet remaine ij.
formes of an imperfecte circle, for it is lyke a circle that
were brused, and thereby did runne out endelong one waie, whiche
forme Geometricians dooe call an [Sidenote: An egge fourme.]
_egge forme_, because it doeth represent the figure and shape of
an egge duely proportioned (as this figure sheweth) hauyng the
one ende greate then the other.

  [Illustration: An egge forme]

  [Illustration: A tunne forme.]

[Sidenote: A tunne or barrel form] For if it be lyke the figure
of a circle pressed in length, and bothe endes lyke bygge, then
is it called a _tunne forme_, or _barrell forme_, the right
makyng of whiche figures, I wyll declare hereafter in the thirde
booke.

An other forme there is, whiche you maie call a nutte forme, and
is made of one lyne muche lyke an egge forme, saue that it hath
a sharpe angle.

And it chaunceth sometyme that there is a right line drawen
crosse these figures, [Sidenote: An axtre or axe lyne.] and that
is called an _axelyne_, or _axtre_. Howe be it properly that
line that is called an _axtre_, whiche gooeth throughe the
myddell of a Globe, for as a diameter is in a circle, so is an
axe lyne or axtre in a Globe, that lyne that goeth from side to
syde, and passeth by the middell of it. And the two poyntes that
suche a lyne maketh in the vtter bounde or platte of the globe,
are named _polis_, w^{ch} you may call aptly in englysh, _tourne
pointes_: of whiche I do more largely intreate, in the booke
that I haue written of the vse of the globe.

  [Illustration]

But to returne to the diuersityes of figures that remayne
vndeclared, the most simple of them ar such ones as be made but
of two lynes, as are the _cantle of a circle_, and the _halfe
circle_, of which I haue spoken allready. Likewyse the _halfe of
an egge forme_, the _cantle of an egge forme_, the _halfe of a
tunne fourme_, and the _cantle of a tunne fourme_, and besyde
these a figure moche like to a tunne fourne, saue that it is
sharp couered at both the endes, and therfore doth consist of
twoo lynes, where a tunne forme is made of one lyne, [Sidenote:
An yey fourme] and that figure is named an _yey fourme_.

  [Illustration]

[Sidenote: A triangle]

The nexte kynd of figures are those that be made of .iij. lynes
other be all right lynes, all crooked lynes, other some right
and some crooked. But what fourme so euer they be of, they are
named generally triangles. for _a triangle_ is nothinge els to
say, but a figure of three corners. And thys is a generall rule,
looke how many lynes any figure hath, so mannye corners it hath
also, yf it bee a platte forme, and not a bodye. For a bodye
hath dyuers lynes metyng sometime in one corner.

  [Illustration: A]

Now to geue you example of triangles, there is one whiche is all
of croked lynes, and may be taken fur a portiõ of a globe as the
figur marked w^t A.

  [Illustration: B]

An other hath two compassed lines and one right lyne, and is as
the portiõ of halfe a globe, example of B.

  [Illustration: C]

An other hath but one compassed lyne, and is the quarter of a
circle, named a quadrate, and the ryght lynes make a right
corner, as you se in C. Otherlesse then it as you se D, whose
right lines make a sharpe corner, or greater then a quadrate, as
is F, and then the right lynes of it do make a blunt corner.

  [Illustration: D]

Also some triangles haue all righte lynes and they be distincted
in sonder by their angles, or corners. for other their corners
bee all sharpe, as you see in the figure, E. other ij. sharpe
and one blunt, as is the figure G. other ij. sharp and one blunt
as in the figure H.

  [Illustration: E]

  [Illustration: F]

There is also an other distinction of the names of triangles,
according to their sides, whiche other be all equal as in the
figure E, and that the Greekes doo call _Isopleuron_, [Sidenote:
ἰσόπλευρομ.] and Latine men _æequilaterum_: and in english it
may be called a _threlike triangle_, other els two sydes bee
equall and the thyrd vnequall, which the Greekes call
_Isosceles_, [Sidenote: ισόσκελεσ.] the Latine men _æquicurio_,
and in english _tweyleke_ may they be called, as in G, H, and K.
For, they may be of iij. kinds that is to say, with one square
angle, as is G, or with a blunte corner as H, or with all in
sharpe korners, as you see in K.

  [Illustration: G]

  [Illustration: H]

  [Illustration: K]

Further more it may be y^t they haue neuer a one syde equall
to an other, and they be in iij kyndes also distinct lyke the
twilekes, as you maye perceaue by these examples .M. N, and O.
where M. hath a right angle, N, a blunte angle, and O, all
sharpe angles [Sidenote: σκαλενὄμ.] these the Greekes and
latine men do cal _scalena_ and in englishe theye may be
called _nouelekes_, for thei haue no side equall, or like lõg,
to ani other in the same figur. Here it is to be noted, that in
a triãgle al the angles bee called _innerãgles_ except ani side
bee drawenne forth in lengthe, for then is that fourthe corner
caled an _vtter corner_, as in this exãple because A.B, is
drawen in length, therfore the ãgle C, is called an vtter ãgle.


  [Illustration: M]

  [Illustration: N]

  [Illustration: O]

  [Illustration]

  [Illustration: Q]

[Sidenote: Quadrãgle] And thus haue I done with triãguled
figures, and nowe foloweth _quadrangles_, which are figures of
iiij. corners and of iiij. lines also, of whiche there be diuers
kindes, but chiefely v. that is to say, [Sidenote: A square
quadrate.] a _square quadrate_, whose sides bee all equall, and
al the angles square, as you se here in this figure Q.
[Sidenote: A longe square.] The second kind is called a long
square, whose foure corners be all square, but the sides are not
equall eche to other, yet is euery side equall to that other
that is against it, as you maye perceaue in this figure. R.

  [Illustration: R]

[Sidenote: A losenge] The thyrd kind is called _losenges_
[Sidenote: A diamõd.] or _diamondes_, whose sides bee all
equall, but it hath neuer a square corner, for two of them be
sharpe, and the other two be blunt, as appeareth in .S.

  [Illustration: S]

The iiij. sorte are like vnto losenges, saue that they are
longer one waye, and their sides be not equal, yet ther corners
are like the corners of a losing, and therfore ar they named
[Sidenote: A losenge lyke.] _losengelike_ or _diamõdlike_, whose
figur is noted with T. Here shal you marke that al those squares
which haue their sides al equal, may be called also for easy
vnderstandinge, _likesides_, as Q. and S. and those that haue
only the contrary sydes equal, as R. and T. haue, those wyll I
call _likeiammys_, for a difference.

  [Illustration: T]

  [Illustration]

The fift sorte doth containe all other fashions of foure
cornered figurs, and ar called of the Grekes _trapezia_, of
Latin mẽ _mensulæ_ and of Arabitians, _helmuariphe_, they may be
called in englishe _borde formes_, [Sidenote: Borde formes.]
they haue no syde equall to an other as these examples shew,
neither keepe they any rate in their corners, and therfore are
they counted _vnruled formes_, and the other foure kindes onely
are counted _ruled formes_, in the kynde of quadrangles. Of
these vnruled formes ther is no numbre, they are so mannye and
so dyuers, yet by arte they may be changed into other kindes of
figures, and therby be brought to measure and proportion, as in
the thirtene conclusion is partly taught, but more plainly in my
booke of measuring you may see it.

And nowe to make an eande of the dyuers kyndes of figures, there
dothe folowe now figures of .v. sydes, other .v. corners, which
we may call _cink-angles_, whose sydes partlye are all equall as
in A, and those are counted _ruled cinkeangles_, and partlye
vnequall, as in B, and they are called _vnruled_.

  [Illustration: A]

  [Illustration: B]

Likewyse shall you iudge of _siseangles_, which haue sixe
corners, _septangles_, whiche haue seuen angles, and so forth,
for as mannye numbres as there maye be of sydes and angles, so
manye diuers kindes be there of figures, vnto which yow shall
geue names according to the numbre of their sides and angles, of
whiche for this tyme I wyll make an ende, [Sidenote: A squyre.]
and wyll sette forthe on example of a syseangle, whiche I had
almost forgotten, and that is it, whose vse commeth often in
Geometry, and is called a _squire_, is made of two long squares
ioyned togither, as this example sheweth.

  [Illustration]

And thus I make an eand to speake of platte formes, and will
briefelye saye somwhat touching the figures of _bodeis_ which
partly haue one platte forme for their bound, and y^t iust roũd
as a _globe_ hath, or ended long as in an _egge_, and a _tunne
fourme_, whose pictures are these.

  [Illustration: The globe as is before.]

Howe be it you must marke that I meane not the very figure of a
tunne, when I saye tunne form, but a figure like a tunne, for a
_tune fourme_, hath but one plat forme, and therfore must needs
be round at the endes, where as a _tunne_ hath thre platte
formes, and is flatte at eche end, as partly these pictures do
shewe.

_Bodies of two plattes_, are other cantles or halues of those
other bodies, that haue but one platte forme, or els they are
lyke in foorme to two such cantles ioyned togither as this A.
doth partly eppresse: or els it is called a _rounde spire_, or
_stiple fourme_, as in this figure is some what expressed.

[Sidenote: A rounde spier.]

Nowe of three plattes there are made certain figures of bodyes,
as the cantels and halues of all bodyes that haue but ij.
plattys, and also the halues of halfe globys and canteles of a
globe. Lykewyse a rounde piller, and a spyre made of a rounde
spyre, slytte in ij. partes long ways.

But as these formes be harde to be iudged by their pycturs,
so I doe entende to passe them ouer with a great number of other
formes of bodyes, which afterwarde shall be set forth in the
boke of Perspectiue, bicause that without perspectiue knowledge,
it is not easy to iudge truly the formes of them in flatte
protacture.

And thus I made an ende for this tyme, of the definitions
Geometricall, appertayning to this parte of practise, and the
rest wil I prosecute as cause shall serue.




            THE PRACTIKE WORKINGE OF
       +sondry conclusions geometrical.+


THE FYRST CONCLVSION.

  To make a threlike triangle on any lyne measurable.

Take the iuste lẽgth of the lyne with your cõpasse, and stay the
one foot of the compas in one of the endes of that line, turning
the other vp or doun at your will, drawyng the arche of a circle
against the midle of the line, and doo like wise with the same
cõpasse vnaltered, at the other end of the line, and wher these
ij. croked lynes doth crosse, frome thence drawe a lyne to ech
end of your first line, and there shall appear a threlike
triangle drawen on that line.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B. is the first line, on which I wold make the threlike
triangle, therfore I open the compasse as wyde as that line is
long, and draw two arch lines that mete in C, then from C,
I draw ij other lines one to A, another to B, and than I haue my
purpose.


THE .II. CONCLVSION

  If you wil make a twileke or a nouelike triangle on ani
  certaine line.

  [Illustration]

Consider fyrst the length that yow will haue the other sides to
containe, and to that length open your compasse, and then worke
as you did in the threleke triangle, remembryng this, that in a
nouelike triangle you must take ij. lengthes besyde the fyrste
lyne, and draw an arche lyne with one of thẽ at the one ende,
and with the other at the other end, the exãple is as in the
other before.

  [Illustration]


THE III. CONCL.

  To diuide an angle of right lines into ij. equal partes.

First open your compasse as largely as you can, so that it do
not excede the length of the shortest line y^t incloseth the
angle. Then set one foote of the compasse in the verye point of
the angle, and with the other fote draw a compassed arch frõ the
one lyne of the angle to the other, that arch shall you deuide
in halfe, and thẽ draw a line frõ the ãgle to y^e middle of y^e
arch, and so y^e angle is diuided into ij. equall partes.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

Let the triãgle be A.B.C, thẽ set I one foot of y^e cõpasse in
B, and with the other I draw y^e arch D.E, which I part into ij.
equall parts in F, and thẽ draw a line frõ B, to F, & so I haue
mine intẽt.


THE IIII. CONCL.

  To deuide any measurable line into ij. equall partes.

  [Illustration]

Open your compasse to the iust lẽgth of y^e line. And thẽ set
one foote steddely at the one ende of the line, & w^t the other
fote draw an arch of a circle against y^e midle of the line,
both ouer it, and also vnder it, then doo lykewaise at the other
ende of the line. And marke where those arche lines do meet
crosse waies, and betwene those ij. pricks draw a line, and it
shall cut the first line in two equall portions.

_Example._

The lyne is A.B. accordyng to which I open the compasse and make
.iiij. arche lines, whiche meete in C. and D, then drawe I a
lyne from C, so haue I my purpose.

This conlusion serueth for makyng of quadrates and squires,
beside many other commodities, howebeit it maye bee don more
readylye by this conclusion that foloweth nexte.


THE FIFT CONCLVSION.

  To make a plumme line or any pricke that you will in any
  right lyne appointed.

Open youre compas so that it be not wyder then from the pricke
appoynted in the line to the shortest ende of the line, but
rather shorter. Then sette the one foote of the compasse in the
first pricke appointed, and with the other fote marke ij. other
prickes, one of eche syde of that fyrste, afterwarde open your
compasse to the wydenes of those ij. new prickes, and draw from
them ij. arch lynes, as you did in the fyrst conclusion, for
making of a threlyke triãgle. then if you do mark their
crossing, and from it drawe a line to your fyrste pricke, it
shall bee a iust plum lyne on that place.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The lyne is A.B. the prick on whiche I shoulde make the plumme
lyne, is C. then open I the compasse as wyde as A.C, and sette
one foot in C. and with the other doo I marke out C.A. and C.B,
then open I the compasse as wide as A.B, and make ij. arch lines
which do crosse in D, and so haue I doone.

Howe bee it, it happeneth so sommetymes, that the pricke on
whiche you would make the perpendicular or plum line, is so nere
the eand of your line, that you can not extende any notable
length from it to thone end of the line, and if so be it then
that you maie not drawe your line lenger frõ that end, then doth
this conclusion require a newe ayde, for the last deuise will
not serue. In suche case therfore shall you dooe thus: If your
line be of any notable length, deuide it into fiue partes. And
if it be not so long that it maie yelde fiue notable partes,
then make an other line at will, and parte it into fiue equall
portiõs: so that thre of those partes maie be found in your
line. Then open your compas as wide as thre of these fiue
measures be, and sette the one foote of the compas in the
pricke, where you would haue the plumme line to lighte (whiche I
call the first pricke,) and with the other foote drawe an arche
line righte ouer the pricke, as you can ayme it: then open youre
compas as wide as all fiue measures be, and set the one foote in
the fourth pricke, and with the other foote draw an other arch
line crosse the first, and where thei two do crosse, thense draw
a line to the poinct where you woulde haue the perpendicular
line to light, and you haue doone.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line is A.B. and A. is the prick, on whiche the
perpendicular line must light. Therfore I deuide A.B. into fiue
partes equall, then do I open the compas to the widenesse of
three partes (that is A.D.) and let one foote staie in A. and
with the other I make an arche line in C. Afterwarde I open the
compas as wide as A.B. (that is as wide as all fiue partes) and
set one foote in the .iiij. pricke, which is E, drawyng an arch
line with the other foote in C. also. Then do I draw thence a
line vnto A, and so haue I doone. But and if the line be to
shorte to be parted into fiue partes, I shall deuide it into
iij. partes only, as you see the liue F.G, and then make D. an
other line (as is K.L.) whiche I deuide into .v. suche
diuisions, as F.G. containeth .iij, then open I the compass as
wide as .iiij. partes (whiche is K.M.) and so set I one foote of
the compas in F, and with the other I drawe an arch lyne toward
H, then open I the cõpas as wide as K.L. (that is all .v.
partes) and set one foote in G, (that is the iij. pricke) and
with the other I draw an arch line toward H. also: and where
those .ij. arch lines do crosse (whiche is by H.) thence draw I
a line vnto F, and that maketh a very plumbe line to F.G, as my
desire was. The maner of workyng of this conclusion, is like to
the second conlusion, but the reason of it doth depẽd of the
.xlvi. proposiciõ of y^e first boke of Euclide. An other waie
yet. set one foote of the compas in the prick, on whiche you
would haue the plumbe line to light, and stretche forth thother
foote toward the longest end of the line, as wide as you can for
the length of the line, and so draw a quarter of a compas or
more, then without stirryng of the compas, set one foote of it
in the same line, where as the circular line did begin, and
extend thother in the circular line, settyng a marke where it
doth light, then take half that quantitie more there vnto, and
by that prick that endeth the last part, draw a line to the
pricke assigned, and it shall be a perpendicular.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B. is the line appointed, to whiche I must make a
perpendicular line to light in the pricke assigned, which is A.
Therfore doo I set one foote of the compas in A, and extend the
other vnto D. makyng a part of a circle, more then a quarter,
that is D.E. Then do I set one foote of the compas vnaltered in
D, and stretch the other in the circular line, and it doth light
in F, this space betwene D. and F. I deuide into halfe in the
pricke G, whiche halfe I take with the compas, and set it beyond
F. vnto H, and thefore is H. the point, by whiche the
perpendicular line must be drawn, so say I that the line H.A, is
a plumbe line to A.B, as the conclusion would.


THE .VI. CONCLVSION.

  To drawe a streight line from any pricke that is not in a
  line, and to make it perpendicular to an other line.

Open your compas as so wide that it may extend somewhat farther,
thẽ from the prick to the line, then sette the one foote of the
compas in the pricke, and with the other shall you draw a
cõpassed line, that shall crosse that other first line in .ij.
places. Now if you deuide that arch line into .ij. equall
partes, and from the middell pricke therof vnto the prick
without the line you drawe a streight line, it shalbe a plumbe
line to that firste lyne, accordyng to the conclusion.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

C. is the appointed pricke, from whiche vnto the line A.B. I
must draw a perpẽdicular. Thefore I open the cõpas so wide, that
it may haue one foote in C, and thother to reach ouer the line,
and with y^t foote I draw an arch line as you see, betwene A.
and B, which arch line I deuide in the middell in the point D.
Then drawe I a line from C. to D, and it is perpendicular to the
line A.B, accordyng as my desire was.


THE .VII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a plumbe lyne on any porcion of a circle, and that
  on the vtter or inner bughte.

Mark first the prick where y^e plũbe line shal lyght: and prick
out of ech side of it .ij. other poinctes equally distant from
that first pricke. Then set the one foote of the cõpas in one of
those side prickes, and the other foote in the other side
pricke, and first moue one of the feete and drawe an arche line
ouer the middell pricke, then set the compas steddie with the
one foote in the other side pricke, and with the other foote
drawe an other arche line, that shall cut that first arche, and
from the very poincte of their meetyng, drawe a right line vnto
the firste pricke, where you do minde that the plumbe line shall
lyghte. And so haue you performed thintent of this conclusion.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The arche of the circle on whiche I would erect a plumbe line,
is A.B.C. and B. is the pricke where I would haue the plumbe
line to light. Therfore I meate out two equall distaunces on
eche side of that pricke B. and they are A.C. Then open I the
compas as wide as A.C. and settyng one of the feete in A. with
the other I drawe an arche line which goeth by G. Like waies I
set one foote of the compas steddily in C. and with the other I
drawe an arche line, goyng by G. also. Now consideryng that G.
is the pricke of their meetyng, it shall be also the poinct fro
whiche I must drawe the plũbe line. Then draw I a right line
from G. to B. and so haue mine intent. Now as A.B.C. hath a
plumbe line erected on his vtter bought, so may I erect a plumbe
line on the inner bught of D.E.F, doynge with it as I did with
the other, that is to saye, fyrste settyng forthe the pricke
where the plumbe line shall light, which is E, and then markyng
one other on eche syde, as are D. and F. And then proceding as I
dyd in the example before.


THE VIII. CONCLVSYON.

  How to deuide the arche of a circle into two equall partes,
  without measuring the arche.

Deuide the corde of that line info ij. equall portions, and then
from the middle prycke erecte a plumbe line, and it shal parte
that arche in the middle.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The arch to be diuided ys A.D.C, the corde is A.B.C, this corde
is diuided in the middle with B, from which prick if I erect a
plum line as B.D, thẽ will it diuide the arch in the middle,
that is to say, in D.


THE IX. CONCLVSION.

To do the same thynge other wise. And for shortenes of worke, if
you wyl make a plumbe line without much labour, you may do it
with your squyre, so that it be iustly made, for yf you applye
the edge of the squyre to the line in which the prick is, and
foresee the very corner of the squyre doo touche the pricke. And
than frome that corner if you drawe a lyne by the other edge of
the squyre, yt will be perpendicular to the former line.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B. is the line, on which I wold make the plumme line, or
perpendicular. And therefore I marke the prick, from which the
plumbe lyne muste rise, which here is C. Then do I sette one edg
of my squyre (that is B.C.) to the line A.B, so at the corner of
the squyre do touche C. iustly. And from C. I drawe a line by
the other edge of the squire, (which is C.D.) And so haue I made
the plumme line D.C, which I sought for.


THE X. CONCLVSION.

  How to do the same thinge an other way yet

If so be it that you haue an arche of suche greatnes, that your
squyre wyll not suffice therto, as the arche of a brydge or of a
house or window, then may you do this. Mete vnderneth the arch
where y^e midle of his cord wyl be, and ther set a mark. Then
take a long line with a plummet, and holde the line in suche a
place of the arch, that the plummet do hang iustely ouer the
middle of the corde, that you didde diuide before, and then the
line doth shewe you the middle of the arche.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The arch is A.D.B, of which I trye the midle thus. I draw a
corde from one syde to the other (as here is A.B,) which I
diuide in the middle in C. Thẽ take I a line with a plummet
(that is D.E,) and so hold I the line that the plummet E, dooth
hange ouer C, And then I say that D. is the middle of the arche.
And to thentent that my plummet shall point the more iustely,
I doo make it sharpe at the nether ende, and so may I trust this
woorke for certaine.


THE XI. CONCLVSION.

  When any line is appointed and without it a pricke, whereby
  a parallel must be drawen howe you shall doo it.

Take the iuste measure beetwene the line and the pricke,
accordinge to which you shal open your compasse. Thẽ pitch one
foote of your compasse at the one ende of the line, and with the
other foote draw a bowe line right ouer the pytche of the
compasse, lyke-wise doo at the other ende of the lyne, then draw
a line that shall touche the vttermoste edge of bothe those bowe
lines, and it will bee a true parallele to the fyrste lyne
appointed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B, is the line vnto which I must draw an other gemow line,
which muste passe by the prick C, first I meate with my compasse
the smallest distance that is from C. to the line, and that is
C.F, wherfore staying the compasse at that distaunce, I seete
the one foote in A, and with the other foot I make a bowe lyne,
which is D, thẽ like wise set I the one foote of the compasse in
B, and with the other I make the second bow line, which is E.
And then draw I a line, so that it toucheth the vttermost edge
of bothe these bowe lines, and that lyne passeth by the pricke
C, end is a gemowe line to A.B, as my sekyng was.


THE .XII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a triangle of any .iij. lines, so that the lines be
  suche, that any .ij. of them be longer then the thirde. For
  this rule is generall, that any two sides of euerie triangle
  taken together, are longer then the other side that
  remaineth.

If you do remember the first and seconde conclusions, then is
there no difficultie in this, for it is in maner the same
woorke. First cõsider the .iij. lines that you must take, and
set one of thẽ for the ground line, then worke with the other
.ij. lines as you did in the first and second conclusions.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

I haue .iij. A.B. and C.D. and E.F. of whiche I put .C.D. for my
ground line, then with my compas I take the length of .A.B. and
set the one foote of my compas in C, and draw an arch line with
the other foote. Likewaies I take the lẽgth of E.F, and set one
foote in D, and with the other foote I make an arch line crosse
the other arche, and the pricke of their metyng (whiche is G.)
shall be the thirde corner of the triangle, for in all suche
kyndes of woorkynge to make a tryangle, if you haue one line
drawen, there remayneth nothyng els but to fynde where the
pitche of the thirde corner shall bee, for two of them must
needes be at the two eandes of the lyne that is drawen.


THE XIII. CONCLVSION.

  If you haue a line appointed, and a pointe in it limited,
  howe you maye make on it a righte lined angle, equall to an
  other right lined angle, all ready assigned.

Fyrste draw a line against the corner assigned, and so is it a
triangle, then take heede to the line and the pointe in it
assigned, and consider if that line from the pricke to this end
bee as long as any of the sides that make the triangle assigned,
and if it bee longe enoughe, then prick out there the length of
one of the lines, and then woorke with the other two lines,
accordinge to the laste conlusion, makynge a triangle of thre
like lynes to that assigned triangle. If it bee not longe
inoughe, thenn lengthen it fyrste, and afterwarde doo as I haue
sayde beefore.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

Lette the angle appoynted bee A.B.C, and the corner assigned, B.
Farthermore let the lymited line bee D.G, and the pricke
assigned D.

Fyrste therefore by drawinge the line A.C, I make the triangle
A.B.C.

  [Illustration]

Then consideringe that D.G, is longer thanne A.B, you shall cut
out a line frõ D. toward G, equal to A.B, as for exãple D.F.
Thẽ measure oute the other ij. lines and worke with thẽ
according as the conclusion with the fyrste also and the second
teacheth yow, and then haue you done.


THE XIIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a square quadrate of any righte lyne appoincted.

First make a plumbe line vnto your line appointed, whiche shall
light at one of the endes of it, accordyng to the fifth
conclusion, and let it be of like length as your first line is,
then opẽ your compasse to the iuste length of one of them, and
sette one foote of the compasse in the ende of the one line, and
with the other foote draw an arche line, there as you thinke
that the fowerth corner shall be, after that set the one foote
of the same compasse vnsturred, in the eande of the other line,
and drawe an other arche line crosse the first archeline, and
the poincte that they do crosse in, is the pricke of the fourth
corner of the square quadrate which you seke for, therfore draw
a line from that pricke to the eande of eche line, and you shall
therby haue made a square quadrate.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. is the line proposed, of whiche I shall make a square
quadrate, therefore firste I make a plũbe line vnto it, whiche
shall lighte in A, and that plũb line is A.C, then open I my
compasse as wide as the length of A.B, or A.C, (for they must be
bothe equall) and I set the one foote of thend in C, and with
the other I make an arche line nigh vnto D, afterward I set the
compas again with one foote in B, and with the other foote I
make an arche line crosse the first arche line in D, and from
the prick of their crossyng I draw .ij. lines, one to B, and an
other to C, and so haue I made the square quadrate that I
entended.


THE .XV. CONCLVSION.

  To make a likeiãme equall to a triangle appointed, and that
  in a right lined ãgle limited.

First from one of the angles of the triangle, you shall drawe a
gemowe line, whiche shall be a parallele to that syde of the
triangle, on whiche you will make that likeiamme. Then on one
end of the side of the triangle, whiche lieth against the gemowe
lyne, you shall draw forth a line vnto the gemow line, so that
one angle that commeth of those .ij. lines be like to the angle
which is limited vnto you. Then shall you deuide into ij. equall
partes that side of the triangle whiche beareth that line, and
from the pricke of that deuision, you shall raise an other line
parallele to that former line, and continewe it vnto the first
gemowe line, and thẽ of those .ij. last gemowe lynes, and the
first gemowe line, with the halfe side of the triangle, is made
a lykeiamme equall to the triangle appointed, and hath an angle
lyke to an angle limited, accordyng to the conclusion.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

B.C.G, is the triangle appoincted vnto, whiche I muste make an
equall likeiamme. And D, is the angle that the likeiamme must
haue. Therfore first entendyng to erecte the likeiãme on the one
side, that the ground line of the triangle (whiche is B.G.) I do
draw a gemow line by C, and make it parallele to the ground line
B.G, and that new gemow line is A.H. Then do I raise a line from
B. vnto the gemowe line, (whiche line is A.B) and make an angle
equall to D, that is the appointed angle (accordyng as the
.viij. cõclusion teacheth) and that angle is B.A.E. Then to
procede, I doo parte in y^e middle the said groũd line B.G, in
the prick F, frõ which prick I draw to the first gemowe line
(A.H.) an other line that is parallele to A.B, and that line is
E.F. Now saie I that the likeiãme B.A.E.F, is equall to the
triangle B.C.G. And also that it hath one angle (that is B.A.E.)
like to D. the angle that was limitted. And so haue I mine
intent. The profe of the equalnes of those two figures doeth
depend of the .xli. proposition of Euclides first boke, and is
the .xxxi. proposition of this second boke of Theoremis, whiche
saieth, that whan a tryangle and a likeiamme be made betwene
.ij. selfe same gemow lines, and haue their ground line of one
length, then is the likeiamme double to the triangle, wherof it
foloweth, that if .ij. suche figures so drawen differ in their
ground line onely, so that the ground line of the likeiamme be
but halfe the ground line of the triangle, then be those .ij.
figures equall, as you shall more at large perceiue by the boke
of Theoremis, in y^e .xxxi. theoreme.


THE .XVI. CONCLVSION.

  To make a likeiamme equall to a triangle appoincted,
  accordyng to an angle limitted, and on a line also assigned.

In the last conclusion the sides of your likeiamme wer left to
your libertie, though you had an angle appoincted. Nowe in this
conclusion you are somwhat more restrained of libertie sith the
line is limitted, which must be the side of the likeiãme.
Therfore thus shall you procede. Firste accordyng to the laste
conclusion, make a likeiamme in the angle appoincted, equall to
the triangle that is assigned. Then with your compasse take the
length of your line appointed, and set out two lines of the same
length in the second gemowe lines, beginnyng at the one side of
the likeiamme, and by those two prickes shall you draw an other
gemowe line, whiche shall be parallele to two sides of the
likeiamme. Afterward shall you draw .ij. lines more for the
accomplishement of your worke, which better shall be perceaued
by a shorte exaumple, then by a greate numbre of wordes, only
without example, therefore I wyl by example sette forth the
whole worke.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Fyrst, according to the last conclusion, I make the likeiamme
E.F.C.G, equal to the triangle D, in the appoynted angle whiche
is E. Then take I the lengthe of the assigned line (which is
A.B,) and with my compas I sette forthe the same lẽgth in the
ij. gemow lines N.F. and H.G, setting one foot in E, and the
other in N, and againe settyng one foote in C, and the other
in H. Afterward I draw a line from N. to H, whiche is a gemow
lyne, to ij. sydes of the likeiamme. thenne drawe I a line also
from N. vnto C. and extend it vntyll it crosse the lines, E.L.
and F.G, which both must be drawen forth longer then the sides
of the likeiamme. and where that lyne doeth crosse F.G, there I
sette M. Nowe to make an ende, I make an other gemowe line,
whiche is parallel to N.F. and H.G, and that gemowe line doth
passe by the pricke M, and then haue I done. Now say I that
H.C.K.L, is a likeiamme equall to the triangle appointed, whiche
was D, and is made of a line assigned that is A.B, for H.C, is
equall vnto A.B, and so is K.L. The profe of y^e equalnes of
this likeiam vnto the triãgle, depẽdeth of the thirty and two
Theoreme: as in the boke of Theoremes doth appear, where it is
declared, that in al likeiammes, whẽ there are more then one
made about one bias line, the filsquares of euery of them muste
needes be equall.


THE XVII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a likeiamme equal to any right lined figure, and
  that on an angle appointed.

The readiest waye to worke this conclusion, is to tourn that
rightlined figure into triangles, and then for euery triangle
together an equal likeiamme, according vnto the eleuen
cõclusion, and then to ioine al those likeiammes into one, if
their sides happen to be equal, which thing is euer certain,
when al the triangles happẽ iustly betwene one pair of gemow
lines. but and if they will not frame so, then after that you
haue for the firste triangle made his likeiamme, you shall take
the lẽgth of one of his sides, and set that as a line assigned,
on whiche you shal make the other likeiams, according to the
twelft cõclusion, and so shall you haue al your likeiammes with
ij. sides equal, and ij. like angles, so y^t you mai easily
ioyne thẽ into one figure.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

If the right lined figure be like vnto A, thẽ may it be turned
into triangles that wil stãd betwene ij. parallels anye ways, as
you mai se by C. and D, for ij. sides of both the triãngles ar
parallels. Also if the right lined figure be like vnto E, thẽ
wil it be turned into triãgles, liyng betwene two parallels
also, as y^e other did before, as in the exãple of F.G. But and
if y^e right lined figure be like vnto H, and so turned into
triãgles as you se in K.L.M, wher it is parted into iij
triãgles, thẽ wil not all those triangles lye betwen one pair of
parallels or gemow lines, but must haue many, for euery triangle
must haue one paire of parallels seuerall, yet it maye happen
that when there bee three or fower triangles, ij. of theym maye
happen to agre to one pair of parallels, whiche thinge I remit
to euery honest witte to serche, for the manner of their draught
wil declare, how many paires of parallels they shall neede, of
which varietee bicause the examples ar infinite, I haue set
forth these few, that by them you may coniecture duly of all
other like.

  [Illustration]

Further explicacion you shal not greatly neede, if you remembre
what hath ben taught before, and then diligẽtly behold how these
sundry figures be turned into triãgles. In the fyrst you se I
haue made v. triangles, and four paralleles. in the seconde vij.
triangles and foure paralleles. in the thirde thre triãgles, and
fiue parallels, in the iiij. you se fiue triãgles & four
parallels. in the fift, iiij. triãgles and .iiij. parallels, &
in y^e sixt ther ar fiue triãgles & iiij. paralels. Howbeit a mã
maye at liberty alter them into diuers formes of triãgles &
therefore I leue it to the discretion of the woorkmaister, to do
in al suche cases as he shal thinke best, for by these examples
(if they bee well marked) may all other like conclusions be
wrought.


THE XVIII. CONCLVSION.

  To parte a line assigned after suche a sorte, that the
  square that is made of the whole line and one of his parts,
  shal be equal to the squar that cometh of the other parte
  alone.

First deuide your lyne into ij. equal parts, and of the length
of one part make a perpendicular to light at one end of your
line assigned. then adde a bias line, and make thereof a
triangle, this done if you take from this bias line the halfe
lengthe of your line appointed, which is the iuste length of
your perpendicular, that part of the bias line whiche dothe
remayne, is the greater portion of the deuision that you seke
for, therefore if you cut your line according to the lengthe of
it, then will the square of that greater portion be equall to
the square that is made of the whole line and his lesser
portion. And contrary wise, the square of the whole line and his
lesser parte, wyll be equall to the square of the greater parte.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B, is the lyne assigned. E. is the middle pricke of A.B, B.C.
is the plumb line or perpendicular, made of the halfe of A.B,
equall to A.E, other B.E, the byas line is C.A, from whiche I
cut a peece, that is C.D, equall to C.B, and accordyng to the
lengthe lo the peece that remaineth (whiche is D.A,) I doo
deuide the line A.B, at whiche diuision I set F. Now say I, that
this line A.B, (w^{ch} was assigned vnto me) is so diuided in
this point F, y^t y^e square of y^e hole line A.B, & of the one
portiõ (y^t is F.B, the lesser part) is equall to the square of
the other parte, whiche is F.A, and is the greater part of the
first line. The profe of this equalitie shall you learne by the
.xl. Theoreme.

  [Transcriber’s Note:
  There are two ways to make this Example work:
  --transpose E and F in the illustration, and change one
  occurrence of E to F in the text (“at whiche diuision I
  set...”), _or_:
  --keep the illustration as printed, and transpose all other
  occurrences of E and F in the text.]


THE .XIX. CONCLVSION.

  To make a square quadrate equall to any right lined figure
  appoincted.

First make a likeiamme equall to that right lined figure, with a
right angle, accordyng to the .xi. conclusion, then consider the
likeiamme, whether it haue all his sides equall, or not: for yf
they be all equall, then haue you doone your conclusion. but and
if the sides be not all equall, then shall you make one right
line iuste as long as two of those vnequall sides, that line
shall you deuide in the middle, and on that pricke drawe half a
circle, then cutte from that diameter of the halfe circle a
certayne portion equall to the one side of the likeiamme, and
from that pointe of diuision shall you erecte a perpendicular,
which shall touche the edge of the circle. And that
perpendicular shall be the iuste side of the square quadrate,
equall both to the lykeiamme, and also to the right lined figure
appointed, as the conclusion willed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

K, is the right lined figure appointed, and B.C.D.E, is the
likeiãme, with right angles equall vnto K, but because that this
likeiamme is not a square quadrate, I must turne it into such
one after this sort, I shall make one right line, as long as
.ij. vnequall sides of the likeiãme, that line here is F.G,
whiche is equall to B.C, and C.E. Then part I that line in the
middle in the pricke M, and on that pricke I make halfe a
circle, accordyng to the length of the diameter F.G. Afterward I
cut awaie a peece from F.G, equall to C.E, markyng that point
with H. And on that pricke I erecte a perpendicular H.K, whiche
is the iust side to the square quadrate that I seke for,
therfore accordyng to the doctrine of the .x. conclusion, of the
lyne I doe make a square quadrate, and so haue I attained the
practise of this conclusion.


THE .XX. CONCLVSION.

  When any .ij. square quadrates are set forth, how you maie
  make one equall to them bothe.

First drawe a right line equall to the side of one of the
quadrates: and on the ende of it make a perpendicular, equall in
length to the side of the other quadrate, then drawe a byas line
betwene those .ij. other lines, makyng thereof a right angeled
triangle. And that byas lyne wyll make a square quadrate, equall
to the other .ij. quadrates appointed.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B. and C.D, are the two square quadrates appointed, vnto which
I must make one equall square quadrate. First therfore I dooe
make a righte line E.F, equall to one of the sides of the square
quadrate A.B. And on the one end of it I make a plumbe line E.G,
equall to the side of the other quadrate D.C. Then drawe I a
byas line G.F, which beyng made the side of a quadrate
(accordyng to the tenth conclusion) will accomplishe the worke
of this practise: for the quadrate H. is muche iust as the other
two. I meane A.B. and D.C.


THE .XXI. CONCLVSION.

  When any two quadrates be set forth, howe to make a squire
  about the one quadrate, whiche shall be equall to the other
  quadrate.

Determine with your selfe about whiche quadrate you wil make the
squire, and drawe one side of that quadrate forth in lengte,
accordyng to the measure of the side of the other quadrate,
whiche line you maie call the grounde line, and then haue you a
right angle made on this line by an other side of the same
quadrate: Therfore turne that into a right cornered triangle,
accordyng to the worke in the laste conclusion, by makyng of a
byas line, and that byas lyne will performe the worke of your
desire. For if you take the length of that byas line with your
compasse, and then set one foote of the compas in the farthest
angle of the first quadrate (whiche is the one ende of the
groundline) and extend the other foote on the same line,
accordyng to the measure of the byas line, and of that line make
a quadrate, enclosyng y^e first quadrate, then will there appere
the forme of a squire about the first quadrate, which squire is
equall to the second quadrate.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The first square quadrate is A.B.C.D, and the seconde is E. Now
would I make a squire about the quadrate A.B.C.D, whiche shall
bee equall vnto the quadrate E.

Therfore first I draw the line A.D, more in length, accordyng to
the measure of the side of E, as you see, from D. vnto F, and so
the hole line of bothe these seuerall sides is A.F, thẽ make I a
byas line from C, to F, whiche byas line is the measure of this
woorke. wherefore I open my compas accordyng to the length of
that byas line C.F, and set the one compas foote in A, and
extend thother foote of the compas toward F, makyng this pricke
G, from whiche I erect a plumbeline G.H, and so make out the
square quadrate A.G.H.K, whose sides are equall eche of them to
A.G. And this square doth contain the first quadrate A.B.C.D,
and also a squire G.H.K, whiche is equall to the second quadrate
E, for as the last conclusion declareth, the quadrate A.G.H.K,
is equall to bothe the other quadrates proposed, that is
A.B.C.D, and E. Then muste the squire G.H.K, needes be equall to
E, consideryng that all the rest of that great quadrate is
nothyng els but the quadrate self, A.B.C.D, and so haue I
thintent of this conclusion.


THE .XXII. CONCLVSION.

  To find out the cẽtre of any circle assigned.

Draw a corde or stryngline crosse the circle, then deuide into
.ij. equall partes, both that corde, and also the bowe line, or
arche line, that serueth to that corde, and from the prickes of
those diuisions, if you drawe an other line crosse the circle,
it must nedes passe by the centre. Therfore deuide that line in
the middle, and that middle pricke is the centre of the circle
proposed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Let the circle be A.B.C.D, whose centre I shall seke. First
therfore I draw a corde crosse the circle, that is A.C. Then do
I deuide that corde in the middle, in E, and likewaies also do I
deuide his arche line A.B.C, in the middle, in the pointe B.
Afterward I drawe a line from B. to E, and so crosse the circle,
whiche line is B.D, in which line is the centre that I seeke
for. Therefore if I parte that line B.D, in the middle in to two
equall portions, that middle pricke (which here is F) is the
verye centre of the sayde circle that I seke. This conclusion
may other waies be wrought, as the moste part of conclusions
haue sondry formes of practise, and that is, by makinge thre
prickes in the circũference of the circle, at liberty where you
wyll, and then findinge the centre to those thre pricks, Which
worke bicause it serueth for sondry vses, I think meet to make
it a seuerall conclusion by it selfe.


THE XXIII. CONCLVSION.

  To find the commen centre belongyng to anye three prickes
  appointed, if they be not in an exacte right line.

It is to be noted, that though euery small arche of a greate
circle do seeme to be a right lyne, yet in very dede it is not
so, for euery part of the circumference of al circles is
compassed, though in litle arches of great circles the eye
cannot discerne the crokednes, yet reason doeth alwais declare
it, therfore iij. prickes in an exact right line can not bee
brought into the circumference of a circle. But and if they be
not in a right line how so euer they stande, thus shall you find
their cõmon centre. Opẽ your compas so wide, that it be somewhat
more then the halfe distance of two of those prickes. Then sette
the one foote of the compas in the one pricke, and with the
other foot draw an arche lyne toward the other pricke, Then
againe putte the foot of your compas in the second pricke, and
with the other foot make an arche line, that may crosse the
firste arch line in ij. places. Now as you haue done with those
two pricks, so do with the middle pricke, and the thirde that
remayneth. Then draw ij. lines by the poyntes where those arche
lines do crosse, and where those two lines do meete, there is
the centre that you seeke for.

_Example_

  [Illustration]

The iij. prickes I haue set to be A.B, and C, whiche I wold
bring into the edg of one common circle, by finding a centre
cõmen to them all, fyrst therefore I open my cõpas, so that thei
occupye more then y^e halfe distance betwene ij. pricks (as are
A.B.) and so settinge one foote in A. and extendinge the other
toward B, I make the arche line D.E. Likewise settĩg one foot in
B, and turninge the other toward A, I draw an other arche line
that crosseth the first in D. and E. Then from D. to E, I draw a
right lyne D.H. After this I open my cõpasse to a new distance,
and make ij. arche lines betwene B. and C, whiche crosse one the
other in F. and G, by whiche two pointes I draw an other line,
that is F.H. And bycause that the lyne D.H. and the lyne F.H.
doo meete in H, I saye that H. is the centre that serueth to
those iij. prickes. Now therfore if you set one foot of your
compas in H, and extend the other to any of the iij. pricks, you
may draw a circle w^{ch} shal enclose those iij. pricks in the
edg of his circũferẽce & thus haue you attained y^e vse of this
cõclusiõ.


THE XXIIII. CONCLVSION.

  To drawe a touche line onto a circle, from any poincte
  assigned.

Here must you vnderstand that the pricke must be without the
circle, els the conclusion is not possible. But the pricke or
poinct beyng without the circle, thus shall you procede: Open
your compas, so that the one foote of it maie be set in the
centre of the circle, and the other foote on the pricke
appoincted, and so draw an other circle of that largenesse about
the same centre: and it shall gouerne you certainly in makyng
the said touche line. For if you draw a line frõ the pricke
appointed vnto the centre of the circle, and marke the place
where it doeth crosse the lesser circle, and from that poincte
erect a plumbe line that shall touche the edge of the vtter
circle, and marke also the place where that plumbe line crosseth
that vtter circle, and from that place drawe an other line to
the centre, takyng heede where it crosseth the lesser circle, if
you drawe a plumbe line from that pricke vnto the edge of the
greatter circle, that line I say is a touche line, drawen from
the point assigned, according to the meaning of this conclusion.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

Let the circle be called B.C.D, and his cẽtre E, and y^e prick
assigned A, opẽ your cõpas now of such widenes, y^t the one
foote may be set in E, w^{ch} is y^e cẽtre of y^e circle, & y^e
other in A, w^{ch} is y^e pointe assigned, & so make an other
greter circle (as here is A.F.G) thẽ draw a line from A. vnto E,
and wher that line doth cross y^e inner circle (w^{ch} heere is
in the prick B.) there erect a plũb line vnto the line. A.E. and
let that plumb line touch the vtter circle, as it doth here in
the point F, so shall B.F. bee that plumbe lyne. Then from F.
vnto E. drawe an other line whiche shal be F.E, and it will
cutte the inner circle, as it doth here in the point C, from
which pointe C. if you erect a plumb line vnto A, then is that
line A.C, the touche line, whiche you shoulde finde. Not
withstandinge that this is a certaine waye to fynde any touche
line, and a demonstrable forme, yet more easyly by many folde
may you fynde and make any suche line with a true ruler, layinge
the edge of the ruler to the edge of the circle and to the
pricke, and so drawing a right line, as this example sheweth,
where the circle is E, the pricke assigned is A. and the ruler
C.D. by which the touch line is drawen, and that is A.B, and as
this way is light to doo, so is it certaine inoughe for any
kinde of workinge.

  [Illustration]


THE XXV. CONCLVSION.

  When you haue any peece of the circumference of a circle
  assigned, howe you may make oute the whole circle agreynge
  therevnto.

First seeke out of the centre of that arche, according to the
doctrine of the seuententh conclusion, and then setting one
foote of your compas in the centre, and extending the other foot
vnto the edge of the arche or peece of the circumference, it is
easy to drawe the whole circle.

_Example._

A peece of an olde pillar was found, like in forme to thys
figure A.D.B. Now to knowe howe muche the cõpasse of the hole
piller was, seing by this parte it appereth that it was round,
thus shal you do. Make in a table the like draught of y^t
circũference by the self patrõ, vsing it as it wer a croked
ruler. Then make .iij. prickes in that arche line, as I haue
made, C. D. and E. And then finde out the common centre to them
all, as the .xvij. conclusion teacheth. And that cẽtre is here
F, nowe settyng one foote of your compas in F, and the other
in C. D, other in E, and so makyng a compasse, you haue youre
whole intent.

  [Illustration]


THE XXVI. CONCLVSION.

  To finde the centre to any arche of a circle.

If so be it that you desire to find the centre by any other way
then by those .iij. prickes, consideryng that sometimes you can
not haue so much space in the thyng where the arche is drawen,
as should serue to make those .iiij. bowe lines, then shall you
do thus: Parte that arche line into two partes, equall other
vnequall, it maketh no force, and vnto ech portion draw a corde,
other a stringline. And then accordyng as you dyd in one arche
in the .xvi. conclusion, so doe in bothe those arches here, that
is to saie, deuide the arche in the middle, and also the corde,
and drawe then a line by those two deuisions, so then are you
sure that that line goeth by the centre. Afterward do lykewaies
with the other arche and his corde, and where those .ij. lines
do crosse, there is the centre, that you seke for.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The arche of the circle is A.B.C, vnto whiche I must seke a
centre, therfore firste I do deuide it into .ij. partes, the one
of them is A.B, and the other is B.C. Then doe I cut euery arche
in the middle, so is E. the middle of A.B, and G. is the middle
of B.C. Likewaies, I take the middle of their cordes, whiche I
mark with F. and H, settyng F. by E, and H. by G. Then drawe I a
line from E. to F, and from G. to H, and they do crosse in D,
wherefore saie I, that D. is the centre, that I seke for.


THE XXVII. CONCLVSION.

  To drawe a circle within a triangle appoincted.

For this conclusion and all other lyke, you muste vnderstande,
that when one figure is named to be within an other, that it is
not other waies to be vnderstande, but that eyther euery syde of
the inner figure dooeth touche euerie corner of the other, other
els euery corner of the one dooeth touche euerie side of the
other. So I call that triangle drawen in a circle, whose corners
do touche the circumference of the circle. And that circle is
contained in a triangle, whose circumference doeth touche
iustely euery side of the triangle, and yet dooeth not crosse
ouer any side of it. And so that quadrate is called properly to
be drawen in a circle, when all his fower angles doeth touche
the edge of the circle, And that circle is drawen in a quadrate,
whose circumference doeth touche euery side of the quadrate, and
lykewaies of other figures.

_Examples are these. A.B.C.D.E.F._

  [Illustration:
    A. is a circle in a triangle.
    B. a triangle in a circle.
    C. a quadrate in a circle.
    D. a circle in a quadrate.]

In these .ij. last figures E. and F, the circle is not named to
be drawen in a triangle, because it doth not touche the sides of
the triangle, neither is the triangle coũted to be drawen in the
circle, because one of his corners doth not touche the
circumference of the circle, yet (as you see) the circle is
within the triangle, and the triangle within the circle, but
nother of them is properly named to be in the other. Now to come
to the conclusion. If the triangle haue all .iij. sides lyke,
then shall you take the middle of euery side, and from the
contrary corner drawe a right line vnto that poynte, and where
those lines do crosse one an other, there is the centre. Then
set one foote of the compas in the centre and stretche out the
other to the middle pricke of any of the sides, and so drawe a
compas, whiche shall touche euery side of the triangle, but
shall not passe with out any of them.

_Example._

The triangle is A.B.C, whose sides I do part into .ij. equall
partes, eche by it selfe in these pointes D.E.F, puttyng F.
betwene A.B, and D. betwene B.C, and E. betwene A.C. Then draw I
a line from C. to F, and an other from A. to D, and the third
from B. to E.

  [Illustration]

And where all those lines do mete (that is to saie M. G,) I set
the one foote of my compasse, because it is the common centre,
and so drawe a circle accordyng to the distaunce of any of the
sides of the triangle. And then find I that circle to agree
iustely to all the sides of the triangle, so that the circle is
iustely made in the triangle, as the conclusion did purporte.
And this is euer true, when the triangle hath all thre sides
equall, other at the least .ij. sides lyke long. But in the
other kindes of triangles you must deuide euery angle in the
middle, as the third conclusion teaches you. And so drawe lines
frõ eche angle to their middle pricke. And where those lines do
crosse, there is the common centre, from which you shall draw a
perpendicular to one of the sides. Then sette one foote of the
compas in that centre, and stretche the other foote accordyng to
the lẽgth of the perpendicular, and so drawe your circle.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The triangle is A.B.C, whose corners I haue diuided in the
middle with D.E.F, and haue drawen the lines of diuision
A.D. B.E, and C.F, which crosse in G, therfore shall G. be the
common centre. Then make I one perpẽdicular from G. vnto the
side B.C, and that is G.H. Now sette I one fote of the compas in
G, and extend the other foote vnto H. and so drawe a compas,
whiche wyll iustly answere to that triãgle according to the
meaning of the conclusion.


THE XXVIII. CONCLVSION.

  To drawe a circle about any triãgle assigned.

Fyrste deuide two sides of the triangle equally in half and from
those ij. prickes erect two perpendiculars, which muste needes
meet in crosse, and that point of their meting is the centre of
the circle that must be drawen, therefore sette one foote of the
compasse in that pointe, and extend the other foote to one
corner of the triangle, and so make a circle, and it shall
touche all iij. corners of the triangle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is the triangle, whose two sides A.C. and B.C. are
diuided into two equall partes in D. and E, settyng D. betwene
B. and C, and E. betwene A. and C. And from eche of those two
pointes is ther erected a perpendicular (as you se D.F, and
E.F.) which mete, and crosse in F, and stretche forth the other
foot of any corner of the triangle, and so make a circle, that
circle shal touch euery corner of the triangle, and shal enclose
the whole triangle, accordinge, as the conclusion willeth.

An other way to do the same.

And yet an other waye may you doo it, accordinge as you learned
in the seuententh conclusion, for if you call the three corners
of the triangle iij. prickes, and then (as you learned there) yf
you seeke out the centre to those three prickes, and so make it
a circle to include those thre prickes in his circumference, you
shall perceaue that the same circle shall iustelye include the
triangle proposed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is the triangle, whose iij. corners I count to be iij.
pointes. Then (as the seuentene conclusion doth teache) I seeke
a common centre, on which I may make a circle, that shall
enclose those iij prickes. that centre as you se is D, for in D.
doth the right lines, that passe by the angles of the arche
lines, meete and crosse. And on that centre as you se, haue I
made a circle, which doth inclose the iij. angles of the
triãgle, and consequentlye the triangle itselfe, as the
conclusion dydde intende.


THE XXIX. CONCLVSION.

  To make a triangle in a circle appoynted whose corners shal
  be equall to the corners of any triangle assigned.

When I will draw a triangle in a circle appointed, so that the
corners of that triangle shall be equall to the corners of any
triangle assigned, then must I first draw a tuche lyne vnto that
circle, as the twenty conclusion doth teach, and in the very
poynte of the touche muste I make an angle, equall to one angle
of the triangle, and that inwarde toward the circle: likewise in
the same pricke must I make an other angle w^t the other halfe
of the touche line, equall to an other corner of the triangle
appointed, and then betwen those two corners will there resulte
a third angle, equall to the third corner of that triangle. Nowe
where those two lines that entre into the circle, doo touche the
circumference (beside the touche line) there set I two prickes,
and betwene them I drawe a thyrde line. And so haue I made a
triangle in a circle appointed, whose corners bee equall to the
corners of the triangle assigned.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C, is the triangle appointed, and F.G.H. is the circle, in
which I muste make an other triangle, with lyke angles to the
angles of A.B.C. the triangle appointed. Therefore fyrst I make
the touch lyne D.F.E. And then make I an angle in F, equall to
A, whiche is one of the angles of the triangle. And the lyne
that maketh that angle with the touche line, is F.H, whiche I
drawe in lengthe vntill it touche the edge of the circle. Then
againe in the same point F, I make an other corner equall to the
angle C. and the line that maketh that corner with the touche
line, is F.G. whiche also I drawe foorthe vntill it touche the
edge of the circle. And then haue I made three angles vpon that
one touch line, and in y^t one point F, and those iij. angles be
equall to the iij. angles of the triangle assigned, whiche
thinge doth plainely appeare, in so muche as they bee equall to
ij. right angles, as you may gesse by the fixt theoreme. And the
thre angles of euerye triangle are equill also to ij. righte
angles, as the two and twenty theoreme dothe show, so that
bicause they be equall to one thirde thinge, they must needes be
equal togither, as the cõmon sentence saith. Thẽ do I draw a
line frome G. to H, and that line maketh a triangle F.G.H, whole
angles be equall to the angles of the triangle appointed. And
this triangle is drawn in a circle, as the conclusion didde
wyll. The proofe of this conclusion doth appeare in the seuenty
and iiij. Theoreme.


THE XXX. CONCLVSION.

  To make a triangle about a circle assigned which shall haue
  corners, equall to the corners of any triangle appointed.

First draw forth in length the one side of the triangle assigned
so that therby you may haue ij. vtter angles, vnto which two
vtter angles you shall make ij. other equall on the centre of
the circle proposed, drawing thre halfe diameters frome the
circumference, whiche shal enclose those ij. angles, thẽ draw
iij. touche lines which shall make ij. right angles, eche of
them with one of those semidiameters. Those iij. lines will make
a triangle equally cornered to the triangle assigned, and that
triangle is drawẽ about a circle apointed, as the cõclusiõ did
wil.

_Example._

A.B.C, is the triangle assigned, and G.H.K, is the circle
appointed, about which I muste make a triangle hauing equall
angles to the angles of that triangle A.B.C. Fyrst therefore I
draw A.C. (which is one of the sides of the triangle) in length
that there may appeare two vtter angles in that triangle, as you
se B.A.D, and B.C.E.

  [Illustration]

Then drawe I in the circle appointed a semidiameter, which is
here H.F, for F. is the cẽtre of the circle G.H.K. Then make I
on that centre an angle equall to the vtter angle B.A.D, and
that angle is H.F.K. Like waies on the same cẽtre by drawyng an
other semidiameter, I make an other angle H.F.G, equall to the
second vtter angle of the triangle, whiche is B.C.E. And thus
haue I made .iij. semidiameters in the circle appointed. Then at
the ende of eche semidiameter, I draw a touche line, whiche
shall make righte angles with the semidiameter. And those .iij.
touch lines mete, as you see, and make the trianagle L.M.N,
whiche is the triangle that I should make, for it is drawen
about a circle assigned, and hath corners equall to the corners
of the triangle appointed, for the corner M. is equall to C.
Likewaies L. to A, and N. to B, whiche thyng you shall better
perceiue by the vi. Theoreme, as I will declare in the booke of
proofes.


THE XXXI. CONCLVSION.

  To make a portion of a circle on any right line assigned,
  whiche shall conteine an angle equall to a right lined angle
  appointed.

The angle appointed, maie be a sharpe angle, a right angle,
other a blunte angle, so that the worke must be diuersely
handeled according to the diuersities of the angles, but
consideringe the hardenes of those seuerall woorkes, I wyll
omitte them for a more meter time, and at this tyme wyll shewe
you one light waye which serueth for all kindes of angles, and
that is this. When the line is proposed, and the angle assigned,
you shall ioyne that line proposed so to the other twoo lines
contayninge the angle assigned, that you shall make a triangle
of theym, for the easy dooinge whereof, you may enlarge or
shorten as you see cause, anye of the two lynes contayninge the
angle appointed. And when you haue made a triangle of those iij.
lines, then accordinge to the doctrine of the seuẽ and twẽty
coclusiõ, make a circle about that triangle. And so haue you
wroughte the request of this conclusion. Whyche yet you maye
woorke by the twenty and eight conclusion also, so that of your
line appointed, you make one side of the triãgle be equal to y^e
ãgle assigned as youre selfe mai easily gesse.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

First for example of a sharpe ãgle let A. stãd & B.C shal be y^e
lyne assigned. Thẽ do I make a triangle, by adding B.C, as a
thirde side to those other ij. which doo include the ãgle
assigned, and that triãgle is D.E.F, so y^t E.F. is the line
appointed, and D. is the angle assigned. Then doo I drawe a
portion of a circle about that triangle, from the one ende of
that line assigned vnto the other, that is to saie, from E.
a long by D. vnto F, whiche portion is euermore greatter then
the halfe of the circle, by reason that the angle is a sharpe
angle. But if the angle be right (as in the second exaumple you
see it) then shall the portion of the circle that containeth
that angle, euer more be the iuste halfe of a circle. And when
the angle is a blunte angle, as the thirde exaumple dooeth
propounde, then shall the portion of the circle euermore be
lesse then the halfe circle. So in the seconde example, G. is
the right angle assigned, and H.K. is the lyne appointed, and
L.M.N. the portion of the circle aunsweryng thereto. In the
third exaumple, O. is the blunte corner assigned, P.Q. is the
line, and R.S.T. is the portion of the circle, that containeth
that blũt corner, and is drawen on R.T. the line appointed.


THE XXXII. CONCLVSION.

  To cutte of from a circle appointed, a portion containyng an
  angle equall to a right lyned angle assigned.

When the angle and the circle are assigned, first draw a touch
line vnto that circle, and then drawe an other line from the
pricke of the touchyng to one side of the circle, so that
thereby those two lynes do make an angle equall to the angle
assigned. Then saie I that the portion of the circle of the
contrarie side to the angle drawen, is the parte that you seke
for.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A. is the angle appointed, and D.E.F. is the circle assigned,
frõ which I must cut away a portiõ that doth contain an angle
equall to this angle A. Therfore first I do draw a touche line
to the circle assigned, and that touch line is B.C, the very
pricke of the touche is D, from whiche D. I drawe a lyne D.E, so
that the angle made of those two lines be equall to the angle
appointed. Then say I, that the arch of the circle D.F.E, is the
arche that I seke after. For if I doo deuide that arche in the
middle (as here is done in F.) and so draw thence two lines, one
to D, and the other to E, then will the angle F, be equall to
the angle assigned.


THE XXXIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a square quadrate in a circle assigned.

Draw .ij. diameters in the circle, so that they runne a crosse,
and that they make .iiij. right angles. Then drawe .iiij. lines,
that may ioyne the .iiij. ends of those diameters, one to an
other, and then haue you made a square quadrate in the circle
appointed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C.D. is the circle assigned, and A.C. and B.D. are the two
diameters which crosse in the centre E, and make .iiij. right
corners. Then do I make fowre other lines, that is A.B, B.C,
C.D, and D.A, which do ioyne together the fowre endes of the ij.
diameters. And so is the square quadrate made in the circle
assigned, as the conclusion willeth.


THE XXXIIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a square quadrate aboute annye circle assigned.

Drawe two diameters in crosse waies, so that they make foure
righte angles in the centre. Then with your compasse take the
length of the halfe diameter, and set one foote of the compas in
eche end of the compas, so shall you haue viij. archelines. Then
yf you marke the prickes wherin those arch lines do crosse, and
draw betwene those iiij. prickes iiij right lines, then haue you
made the square quadrate accordinge to the request of the
conclusion.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is the circle assigned in which first I draw two
diameters, in crosse waies, making iiij. righte angles, and
those ij. diameters are A.C. and B.D. Then sette I my compasse
(whiche is opened according to the semidiameter of the said
circle) fixing one foote in the end of euery semidiameter, and
drawe with the other foote twoo arche lines, one on euery side.
As firste, when I sette the one foote in A, then with the other
foote I doo make twoo arche lines, one in E, and an other in F.
Then sette I the one foote of the compasse in B, and drawe twoo
arche lines F. and G. Like wise setting the compasse foote in C,
I drawe twoo other arche lines, G. and H, and on D. I make twoo
other, H. and E. Then frome the crossinges of those eighte arche
lines I drawe iiij. straighte lynes, that is to saye, E.F, and
F.G, also G.H, and H.E, whiche iiij. straighte lynes do make the
square quadrate that I should draw about the circle assigned.


THE XXXV. CONCLVSION.

  To draw a circle in any square quadrate appointed.

Fyrste deuide euery side of the quadrate into twoo equall
partes, and so drawe two lynes betwene eche two contrary
poinctes, and where those twoo lines doo crosse, there is the
centre of the circle. Then sette the foote of the compasse in
that point, and stretch forth the other foot, according to the
length of halfe one of those lines, and so make a compas in the
square quadrate assigned.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C.D. is the quadrate appointed, in whiche I muste make a
circle. Therefore first I do deuide euery side in ij. equal
partes, and draw ij. lines acrosse, betwene eche ij. cõtrary
prickes, as you se E.G, and F.H, whiche mete in K, and therfore
shal K, be the centre of the circle. Then do I set one foote of
the compas in K. and opẽ the other as wide as K.E, and so draw a
circle, which is made accordinge to the conclusion.


THE XXXVI. CONCLVSION.

  To draw a circle about a square quadrate.

Draw ij. lines betwene the iiij. corners of the quadrate, and
where they mete in crosse, ther is the centre of the circle that
you seeke for. Thẽ set one foot of the compas in that centre,
and extend the other foote vnto one corner of the quadrate, and
so may you draw a circle which shall iustely inclose the
quadrate proposed.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C.D. is the square quadrate proposed, about which I must
make a circle. Therfore do I draw ij. lines crosse the square
quadrate from angle to angle, as you se A.C. & B.D. And where
they ij. do crosse (that is to say in E.) there set I the one
foote of the compas as in the centre, and the other foote I do
extend vnto one angle of the quadrate, as for exãple to A, and
so make a compas, whiche doth iustly inclose the quadrate,
according to the minde of the conclusion.


THE XXXVII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a twileke triangle, whiche shall haue euery of the
  ij. angles that lye about the ground line, double to the
  other corner.

Fyrste make a circle, and deuide the circumference of it into
fyue equall partes. And thenne drawe frome one pricke (which you
will) two lines to ij. other prickes, that is to say to the iij.
and iiij. pricke, counting that for the first, wherhence you
drewe both those lines, Then drawe the thyrde lyne to make a
triangle with those other twoo, and you haue doone according to
the conclusion, and haue made a twelike triãgle, whose ij.
corners about the grounde line, are eche of theym double to the
other corner.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is the circle, whiche I haue deuided into fiue equal
portions. And from one of the prickes (which is A,) I haue drawẽ
ij. lines, A.B. and B.C, whiche are drawen to the third and
iiij. prickes. Then draw I the third line C.B, which is the
grounde line, and maketh the triangle, that I would haue, for
the ãgle C. is double to the angle A, and so is the angle B.
also.


THE XXXVIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a cinkangle of equall sides, and equall corners in
  any circle appointed.

Deuide the circle appointed into fiue equall partes, as you
didde in the laste conclusion, and drawe ij. lines from euery
pricke to the other ij. that are nexte vnto it. And so shall you
make a cinkangle after the meanynge of the conclusion.

_Example._

Yow se here this circle A.B.C.D.E. deuided into fiue equall
portions. And from eche pricke ij. lines drawen to the other ij.
nexte prickes, so from A. are drawen ij. lines, one to B, and
the other to E, and so from C. one to B. and an other to D, and
likewise of the reste. So that you haue not only learned hereby
how to make a sinkangle in anye circle, but also how you shal
make a like figure spedely, whanne and where you will, onlye
drawinge the circle for the intente, readylye to make the other
figure (I meane the cinkangle) thereby.

  [Illustration]


THE XXXIX. CONCLVSION.

  How to make a cinkangle of equall sides and equall angles
  about any circle appointed.

Deuide firste the circle as you did in the last conclusion into
fiue equall portions, and draw fiue semidiameters in the circle.
Then make fiue touche lines, in suche sorte that euery touche
line make two right angles with one of the semidiameters. And
those fiue touche lines will make a cinkangle of equall sides
and equall angles.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B.C.D.E. is the circle appointed, which is deuided into fiue
equal partes. And vnto euery prycke is drawẽ a semidiameter, as
you see. Then doo I make a touche line in the pricke B, whiche
is F.G, making ij. right angles with the semidiameter B, and
lyke waies on C. is made G.H, on D. standeth H.K, and on E, is
set K.L, so that of those .v. touche lynes are made the .v.
sides of a cinkeangle, accordyng to the conclusion.

An other waie.

Another waie also maie you drawe a cinkeangle aboute a circle,
drawyng first a cinkeangle in the circle (whiche is an easie
thyng to doe, by the doctrine of the .xxxvij. conclusion) and
then drawing .v. touche lines whiche shall be iuste paralleles
to the .v. sides of the cinkeangle in the circle, forseeyng that
one of them do not crosse ouerthwarte an other and then haue you
done. The exaumple of this (because it is easie) I leaue to your
owne exercise.


THE XL. CONCLVSION.

  To make a circle in any appointed cinkeangle of equall sides
  and equall corners.

Drawe a plumbe line from any one corner of the cinkeangle, vnto
the middle of the side that lieth iuste against that angle. And
do likewaies in drawyng an other line from some other corner, to
the middle of the side that lieth against that corner also. And
those two lines wyll meete in crosse in the pricke of their
crossyng, shall you iudge the centre of the circle to be.
Therfore set one foote of the compas in that pricke, and extend
the other to the end of the line that toucheth the middle of one
side, whiche you liste, and so drawe a circle. And it shall be
iustly made in the cinkeangle, according to the conclusion.

_Example._

The cinkeangle assigned is A.B.C.D.E, in whiche I muste make a
circle, wherefore I draw a right line from the one angle (as
from B,) to the middle of the contrary side (whiche is E. D,)
and that middle pricke is F. Then lykewaies from an other corner
(as from E) I drawe a right line to the middle of the side that
lieth against it (whiche is B.C.) and that pricke is G. Nowe
because that these two lines do crosse in H, I saie that H. is
the centre of the circle, whiche I would make. Therfore I set
one foote of the compasse in H, and extend the other foote vnto
G, or F. (whiche are the endes of the lynes that lighte in the
middle of the side of that cinkeangle) and so make I the circle
in the cinkangle, right as the cõclusion meaneth.

  [Illustration]


THE XLI. CONCLVSION

  To make a circle about any assigned cinkeangle of equall
  sides, and equall corners.

Drawe .ij. lines within the cinkeangle, from .ij. corners to the
middle on tbe .ij. contrary sides (as the last conclusion
teacheth) and the pointe of their crossyng shall be the centre
of the circle that I seke for. Then sette I one foote of the
compas in that centre, and the other foote I extend to one of
the angles of the cinkangle, and so draw I a circle about the
cinkangle assigned.

_Example._

A.B.C.D.E, is the cinkangle assigned, about which I would make a
circle. Therfore I drawe firste of all two lynes (as you see)
one frõ E. to G, and the other frõ C. to F, and because thei do
meete in H, I saye that H. is the centre of the circle that I
woulde haue, wherfore I sette one foote of the compasse in H.
and extende the other to one corner (whiche happeneth fyrste,
for all are like distaunte from H.) and so make I a circle
aboute the cinkeangle assigned.

  [Illustration]

An other waye also.

Another waye maye I do it, thus presupposing any three corners
of the cinkangle to be three prickes appointed, vnto whiche I
shoulde finde the centre, and then drawinge a circle touchinge
them all thre, accordinge to the doctrine of the seuentene, one
and twenty, and two and twenty conclusions. And when I haue
founde the centre, then doo I drawe the circle as the same
conclusions do teache, and this forty conclusion also.


THE XLII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a siseangle of equall sides, and equall angles, in
  any circle assigned.

Yf the centre of the circle be not knowen, then seeke oute the
centre according to the doctrine of the sixtenth conclusion. And
with your compas take the quantitee of the semidiameter iustly.
And then sette one foote in one pricke of the circũference of
the circle, and with the other make a marke in the circumference
also towarde both sides. Then sette one foote of the compas
stedily in eche of those new prickes, and point out two other
prickes. And if you haue done well, you shal perceaue that there
will be but euen sixe such diuisions in the circumference.
Whereby it dothe well appeare, that the side of anye sisangle
made in a circle, is equalle to the semidiameter of the same
circle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is B.C.D.E.F.G, whose centre I finde to bee A.
Therefore I sette one foote of the compas in A, and do extẽd the
other foote to B, thereby takinge the semidiameter. Then sette I
one foote of the compas vnremoued in B, and marke with the other
foote on eche side C. and G. Then from C. I marke D, and frõ D,
E: from E. marke I F. And then haue I but one space iuste vnto
G. and so haue I made a iuste siseangle of equall sides and
equall angles, in a circle appointed.


THE XLIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a siseangle of equall sides, and equall angles about
  any circle assigned.


THE XLIIII. CONCLVSION.

  To make a circle in any siseangle appointed, of equall sides
  and equal angles.


THE XLV. CONCLVSION.

  To make a circle about any sise angle limited of equall
  sides and equall angles.

Bicause you maye easily coniecture the makinge of these figures
by that that is saide before of cinkangles, only consideringe
that there is a difference in the numbre of sides, I thought
beste to leue these vnto your owne deuice, that you should study
in some thinges to exercise your witte withall and that you
mighte haue the better occasion to perceaue what difference
there is betwene eche twoo of those conclusions. For thoughe it
seeme one thing to make a siseangle in a circle, and to make a
circle about a siseangle, yet shall you perceaue, that is not
one thinge, nother are those twoo conclusions wrought one way.
Likewaise shall you thinke of those other two conclusions. To
make a siseangle about a circle, and to make a circle in a
siseangle, thoughe the figures be one in fashion, when they are
made, yet are they not one in working, as you may well perceaue
by the xxxvij. xxxviij. xxxix. and xl. conclusions, in whiche
the same workes are taught, touching a circle and a cinkangle,
yet this muche wyll I saye, for your helpe in working, that when
you shall seeke the centre in a siseangle (whether it be to make
a circle in it other about it) you shall drawe the two
crosselines, from one angle to the other angle that lieth
againste it, and not to the middle of any side, as you did in
the cinkangle.


THE XLVI. CONCLVSION.

  To make a figure of fifteene equall sides and angles in any
  circle appointed.

This rule is generall, that how many sides the figure shall
haue, that shall be drawen in any circle, into so many partes
iustely muste the circles bee deuided. And therefore it is the
more easier woorke commonly, to drawe a figure in a circle, then
to make a circle in an other figure. Now therefore to end this
conclusion, deuide the circle firste into fiue partes, and
  then eche of them into three partes againe: Or els
  first deuide it into three partes, and then ech
  of thẽ into fiue other partes, as you
  list, and canne most readilye.
  Then draw lines betwene
  euery two prickes
  that be nighest
  togither, and
  ther wil appear rightly drawẽ the figure, of fiftene sides,
  and angles equall. And so do with any other figure
  of what numbre of sides so euer it bee.


  +FINIS.+




                THE SECOND BOOKE
              +OF THE PRINCIPLES+
      _of Geometry, containing certaine_
        _Theoremes, whiche may be cal-_
        led Approued truthes. And be as
           it were the moste certaine
             groundes, wheron the
              practike cõclusions
                of Geometry ar
                    founded.

                     [Leaf]

  Whervnto are annexed certaine declarations by
  examples, for the right vnderstanding of the
    same, to the ende that the simple reader
      might not iustly cõplain of hardnes
        or obscuritee, and for the same
            cause ar the demonstra-
             tions and iust profes
               omitted, vntill a
                 more conueni-
                   ent time.


                      1551.




  If truthe maie trie it selfe,
    By Reasons prudent skyll,
  If reason maie preuayle by right,
    And rule the rage of will,
  I dare the triall byde,
    For truthe that I pretende.
  And though some lyst at me repine,
    Iuste truthe shall me defende.




  THE PREFACE VNTO
  the Theoremes.

I Doubt not gentle reader, but as my argument is straunge and
vnacquainted with the vulgare toungue, so shall I of many men be
straungly talked of, and as straungly iudged. Some men will saye
peraduenture, I mighte haue better imployed my tyme in some
pleasaunte historye, comprisinge matter of chiualrye. Some other
wolde more haue preised my trauaile, if I hadde spente the like
time in some morall matter, other in deciding some controuersy
of religion. And yet some men (as I iudg) will not mislike this
kind of mater, but then will they wishe that I had vsed a more
certaine order in placinge bothe the Propositions and Theoremes,
and also a more exacter proofe of eche of theim bothe, by
demonstrations mathematicall. Some also will mislike my
shortenes and simple plainesse, as other of other affections
diuersely shall espye somwhat that they shall thinke blame
worthy, and shal misse somewhat, that thei wold with to haue
bene here vsed, so that euerie manne shall giue his verdicte of
me according to his phantasie, vnto whome ioinctly, I make this
my firste answere: that as they ar many and in opinions verie
diuers, so were it scarse possible to please them all with anie
one argumente, of what kinde so euer it were. And for my seconde
aunswere, I saye thus. That if annye one argumente mighte please
them all, then should thei be thankfull vnto me for this kind of
matter. For nother is there anie matter more straunge in the
englishe tungue, then this whereof neuer booke was written
before now, in that tungue, and therefore oughte to delite all
them, that desire to vnderstand strange matters, as most men
commonlie doo. And againe the practise is so pleasaunt in
vsinge, and so profitable in appliynge, that who so euer dothe
delite in anie of bothe, ought not of right to mislike this
arte. And if any manne shall like the arte welle for it selfe,
but shall mislyke the fourme that I haue vsed in teachyng of it,
to hym I shall saie, Firste, that I dooe wishe with hym that
some other man, whiche coulde better haue doone it, hadde shewed
his good will, and vsed his diligence in suche sorte, that I
myght haue bene therby occasioned iustely to haue left of my
laboure, or after my trauaile to haue suppressed my bookes. But
sithe no manne hath yet attempted the like, as far as I canne
learne, I truste all suche as bee not exercised in the studie of
Geometrye, shall finde greate ease and furtheraunce by this
simple, plaine, and easie forme of writinge. And shall perceaue
the exacte woorkes of Theon, and others that write on Euclide,
a great deale the soner, by this blunte delineacion afore hande
to them taughte. For I dare presuppose of them, that thing which
I haue sette in my selfe, and haue marked in others, that is to
saye, that it is not easie for a man that shall trauaile in a
straunge arte, to vnderstand at the beginninge bothe the thing
that is taught and also the iuste reason whie it is so. And by
experience of teachinge I haue tried it to bee true, for whenne
I haue taughte the proposition, as it is imported in meaninge,
and annexed the demonstration with all, I didde perceaue that it
was a greate trouble and a painefull vexacion of mynde to the
learner, to comprehend bothe those thinges at ones. And therfore
did I proue firste to make them to vnderstande the sence of the
propositions, and then afterward did they conceaue the
demonstrations muche soner, when they hadde the sentence of the
propositions first ingrafted in their mindes. This thinge caused
me in bothe these bookes to omitte the demonstrations, and to
vse onlye a plaine forme of declaration, which might best serue
for the firste introduction. Whiche example hath beene vsed by
other learned menne before nowe, for not only Georgius Ioachimus
Rheticus, but also Boetius that wittye clarke did set forth some
whole books of Euclide, without any demonstration or any other
declaratiõ at al. But & if I shal hereafter perceaue that it
maie be a thankefull trauaile to sette foorth the propositions
of geometrie with demonstrations, I will not refuse to dooe it,
and that with sundry varietees of demonstrations, bothe
pleasaunt and profitable also. And then will I in like maner
prepare to sette foorth the other bookes, whiche now are lefte
vnprinted, by occasion not so muche of the charges in cuttyng of
the figures, as for other iuste hynderances, whiche I truste
hereafter shall bee remedied. In the meane season if any man
muse why I haue sette the Conclusions beefore the Teoremes,
seynge many of the Theoremes seeme to include the cause of some
of the conclusions, and therfore oughte to haue gone before
them, as the cause goeth before the effecte. Here vnto I saie,
that although the cause doo go beefore the effect in order of
nature, yet in order of teachyng the effect must be fyrst
declared, and than the cause therof shewed, for so that men best
vnderstãd things First to lerne that such thinges ar to be
wrought, and secondarily what thei ar, and what thei do import,
and thã thirdly what is the cause therof. An other cause why y^t
the theoremes be put after the cõclusions is this, whã I wrote
these first cõnclusions (which was .iiiij. yeres passed)
I thought not then to haue added any theoremes, but next vnto
y^e cõclusiõs to haue taught the order how to haue applied thẽ
to work, for drawing of plottes & such like vses. But afterward
cõsidering the great cõmoditie y^t thei serue for, and the light
that thei do geue to all sortes of practise geometricall, besyde
other more notable benefites, whiche shall be declared more
specially in a place conuenient, I thoughte beste to geue you
some taste of theym, and the pleasaunt contemplation of suche
geometrical propositions, which might serue diuerselye in other
bookes for the demonstrations and proofes of all Geometricall
woorkes. And in theim, as well as in the propositions, I haue
drawen in the Linearie examples many tymes more lynes, than be
spoken of in the explication of them, whiche is doone to this
intent, that yf any manne lyst to learne the demonstrations by
harte, (as somme learned men haue iudged beste to doo) those
same men should find the Linearye exaumples to serue for this
purpose, and to wante no thyng needefull to the iuste proofe,
whereby this booke may bee wel approued to be more complete then
many men wolde suppose it.

And thus for this tyme I wyll make an ende without any larger
declaration of the commoditiees of this arte, or any farther
answeryng to that may bee obiected agaynst my handelyng of it,
wyllyng them that myslike it, not to medle with it: and vnto
those that will not disdaine the studie of it, I promise all
suche aide as I shall be able to shewe for their farther
procedyng both in the same, and in all other commoditees that
thereof maie ensue. And for their incouragement I haue here
annexed the names and brefe argumentes of suche bookes, as I
intende (God willyng) shortly to sette forth, if I shall
perceaue that my paynes maie profyte other, as my desyre is.


  +The brefe argumentes of suche bokes as ar appoynted shortly
  to be set forth by the author herof.+

THE seconde part of Arithmetike, teachyng the workyng by
fractions, with extraction of rootes both square and cubike: And
declaryng the rule of allegation, with sundrye plesaunt
exaumples in metalles and other thynges. Also the rule of false
position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some
appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber, applied vnto quantitees
partly rationall, and partly surde.

THE arte of Measuryng by the quadrate geometricall, and the
disorders committed by vsyng the same, not only reueled but
reformed also (as muche as to the instrument pertayneth) by the
deuise of a new quadrate newely inuented by the author hereof.

THE arte of measuryng by the astronomers staffe, and by the
astronomers ryng, and the form of makyng them both.

THE arte of makyng of Dials, bothe for the daie and the nyght,
with certayn new formes of fixed dialles for the moon and other
for the sterres, whiche may bee sette in glasse windowes to
serue by daie and by night. And howe you may by those dialles
knowe in what degree of the Zodiake not only the sonne, but also
the moone is. And how many howrs old she is. And also by the
same dial to know whether any eclipse shall be that moneth, of
the sonne or of the moone.

The makyng and vse of an instrument, wherby you maye not onely
measure the distance at ones of all places that you can see
togyther, howe muche eche one is from you, and euery one from
other, but also therby to drawe the plotte of any countreie that
you shall come in, as iustely as maie be, by mannes diligence
and labour.

THE vse bothe of the Globe and the Sphere, and therin also of
the arte of Nauigation, and what instrumentes serue beste
thervnto, and of the trew latitude and longitude of regions and
townes.

Euclides woorkes in foore partes, with diuers demonstrations
Arithmeticall and Geometricall or Linearie. The fyrst parte of
platte formes. The second of numbres and quantitees surde or
irrationall. The third of bodies and solide formes. The fourthe
of perspectiue, and other thynges thereto annexed.

BESIDE these I haue other sundrye woorkes partely ended, and
partely to bee ended, Of the peregrination of man, and the
originall of al nations, The state of tymes, and mutations of
realmes, The image of a perfect common welth, with diuers other
woorkes in naturall sciences, Of the wonderfull workes and
effectes in beastes, plantes, and minerals, of whiche at this
tyme, I will omitte the argumentes, beecause thei doo appertaine
littel to this arte, and handle other matters in an other sorte.

  To haue, or leaue,
  Nowe maie you chuse,
  No paine to please,
  Will I refuse.




       The Theoremes of Geometry, before
            _WHICHE ARE SET FORTHE_
        _certaine grauntable requestes_
        _which serue for demonstrations_
                 Mathematicall.


[Sidenote: I.]

  That frõ any pricke to one other, there may be drawen a
  right line.

As for example A--------B. A. being the one pricke, and B. the
other, you maye drawe betwene them from the one to the other,
that is to say, frome A. vnto B, and from B. to A.


[Sidenote: II.]

  That any right line of measurable length may be drawen forth
  longer, and straight.

  [Illustration]

Example of A.B, which as it is a line of measurable lengthe, so
may it be drawen forth farther, as for example vnto C, and that
in true streightenes without crokinge.


[Sidenote: III.]

  [Illustration]

  That vpon any centre, there may be made a circle of anye
  quãtitee that a man wyll.

Let the centre be set to be A, what shal hinder a man to drawe a
circle aboute it, of what quantitee that he lusteth, as you se
the forme here: other bygger or lesse, as it shall lyke him to
doo:


  That all right angles be equall eche to other.

  [Illustration]

Set for an example A. and B, of which two though A. seme the
greatter angle to some men of small experience, it happeneth
only bicause that the lines aboute A, are longer thẽ the lines
about B, as you may proue by drawing them longer, for so that B.
seme the greater angle yf you make his lines longer then the
lines that make the angle A. And to proue it by demonstration,
I say thus. If any ij. right corners be not equal, then one
right corner is greater then an other, but that corner which is
greatter then a right angle, is a blunt corner (by his
definition) so must one corner be both a right corner and a
blunt corner also, which is not possible: And againe: the lesser
right corner must be a sharpe corner, by his definition, bicause
it is lesse then a right angle. which thing is impossible.
Therefore I conclude that all right angles be equall.


  Yf one right line do crosse two other right lines, and make
  ij. inner corners of one side lesser thẽ ij. righte corners,
  it is certaine, that if those two lines be drawen forth
  right on that side that the sharpe inner corners be, they
  wil at lẽgth mete togither, and crosse on an other.

  [Illustration]

The ij. lines beinge as A.B. and C.D, and the third line
crossing them as dooth heere E.F, making ij inner cornes (as ar
G.H.) lesser then two right corners, sith ech of them is lesse
then a right corner, as your eyes maye iudge, then say I, if
those ij. lines A.B. and C.D. be drawen in lengthe on that side
that G. and H. are, the will at length meet and crosse one an
other.


  Two right lines make no platte forme.

  [Illustration]

A platte forme, as you harde before, hath bothe length and
bredthe, and is inclosed with lines as with his boundes, but ij.
right lines cannot inclose al the bondes of any platte forme.
Take for an example firste these two right lines A.B. and A.C.
whiche meete togither in A, but yet cannot be called a platte
forme, bicause there is no bond from B. to C, but if you will
drawe a line betwene them twoo, that is frome B. to C, then will
it be a platte forme, that is to say, a triangle, but then are
there iij. lines, and not only ij. Likewise may you say of D.E.
and F.G, whiche doo make a platte forme, nother yet can they
make any without helpe of two lines more, whereof the one must
be drawen from D. to F, and the other frome E. to G, and then
will it be a longe rquare. So then of two right lines can bee
made no platte forme. But of ij. croked lines be made a platte
forme, as you se in the eye form. And also of one right line, &
one croked line, maye a platte fourme bee made, as the
semicircle F. doothe sette forth.


  Certayn common sentences manifest to
  sence, and acknowledged of all men.


_The firste common sentence._

  What so euer things be equal to one other thinge, those same
  bee equall betwene them selues.

  [Illustration]

Examples therof you may take both in greatnes and also in
numbre. First (though it pertaine not proprely to geometry, but
to helpe the vnderstandinge of the rules, whiche may bee wrought
by bothe artes) thus may you perceaue. If the summe of monnye in
my purse, and the mony in your purse be equall eche of them to
the mony that any other man hathe, then must needes your mony
and mine be equall togyther. Likewise, if anye ij. quantities,
as A. and B, be equal to an other, as vnto C, then muste nedes A.
and B. be equall eche to other, as A. equall to B, and B. equall
to A, whiche thinge the better to perceaue, tourne these
quantities into numbre, so shall A. and B. make sixteene, and C.
as many. As you may perceaue by multipliyng the numbre of their
sides togither.


_The seconde common sentence._

  And if you adde equall portions to thinges that be equall,
  what so amounteth of them shall be equall.

Example, Yf you and I haue like summes of mony, and then receaue
eche of vs like summes more, then our summes wil be like styll.
Also if A. and B. (as in the former example) bee equall, then by
adding an equal portion to them both, as to ech of them, the
quarter of A. (that is foure) they will be equall still.


_The thirde common sentence._

  And if you abate euen portions from things that are equal,
  those partes that remain shall be equall also.

This you may perceaue by the last example. For that that was
added there, is subtracted heere. and so the one doothe approue
the other.


_The fourth common sentence._

  If you abate equalle partes from vnequal thinges, the
  remainers shall be vnequall.

As bicause that a hundreth and eight and forty be vnequal if I
take tenne from them both, there will remaine nynetye and eight
and thirty, which are also vnequall. and likewise in quantities
it is to be iudged.


_The fifte common sentence._

  When euen portions are added to vnequalle thinges, those
  that amounte shalbe vnequall.

So if you adde twenty to fifty, and lyke ways to nynty, you
shall make seuenty and a hundred and ten whiche are no lesse
vnequall, than were fifty and nynty.


_The syxt common sentence._

  If two thinges be double to any other, those same two
  thinges are equal togither.

  [Illustration]

Bicause A. and B. are eche of them double to C, therefore must
A. and B. nedes be equall togither. For as v. times viij. maketh
xl. which is double to iiij. times v, that is xx so iiij. times
x, likewise is double to xx. (for it maketh fortie) and
therefore muste neades be equall to forty.


_The seuenth common sentence._

  If any two thinges be the halfes of one other thing, then
  are thei .ij. equall togither.

So are D. and C. in the laste example equal togyther, bicause
they are eche of them the halfe of A. other of B, as their
numbre declareth.


_The eyght common sentence._

  If any one quantitee be laide on an other, and thei agree,
  so that the one excedeth not the other, then are they equall
  togither.

  [Illustration]

As if this figure A.B.C, be layed on that other D.E.F, so that
A. be layed to D, B. to E, and C. to F, you shall see them agre
in sides exactlye and the one not to excede the other, for the
line A.B. is equall to D.E, and the third lyne C.A, is equall to
F.D so that eueryside in the one is equall to some one side of
the other. Wherfore it is playne, that the two triangles are
equall togither.


_The nynth common sentence._

  Euery whole thing is greater than any of his partes.

This sentence nedeth none example. For the thyng is more playner
then any declaration, yet considering that other common sentence
that foloweth nexte that.


_The tenthe common sentence._

  Euery whole thinge is equall to all his partes taken
  togither.

  [Illustration]

  [Illustration]

It shall be mete to expresse both w^t one example, for of thys
last sentence many mẽ at the first hearing do make a doubt.
Therfore as in this example of the circle deuided into sũdry
partes it doeth appere that no parte can be so great as the
whole circle, (accordyng to the meanyng of the eight sentence)
so yet it is certain, that all those eight partes together be
equall vnto the whole circle. And this is the meanyng of that
common sentence (whiche many vse, and fewe do rightly
vnderstand) that is, that _All the partes of any thing are
nothing els, but the whole_. And contrary waies: _The whole is
nothing els, but all his partes taken togither_. whiche saiynges
some haue vnderstand to meane thus: that all the partes are of
the same kind that the whole thyng is: but that that meanyng is
false, it doth plainly appere by this figure A.B, whose partes
A. and B, are triangles, and the whole figure is a square, and
so are they not of one kind. But and if they applie it to the
matter or substance of thinges (as some do) then it is most
false, for euery compound thyng is made of partes of diuerse
matter and substance. Take for example a man, a house, a boke,
and all other compound thinges. Some vnderstand it thus, that
the partes all together can make none other forme, but that that
the whole doth shewe, whiche is also false, for I maie make fiue
hundred diuerse figures of the partes of some one figure, as you
shall better perceiue in the third boke. And in the meane seasõ
take for an exãple this square figure following A.B.C.D, w^{ch}
is deuided but in two parts, and yet (as you se) I haue made
fiue figures more beside the firste, with onely diuerse ioynyng
of those two partes. But of this shall I speake more largely in
an other place. In the mean season content your self with these
principles, whiche are certain of the chiefe groundes wheron all
demonstrations mathematical are fourmed, of which though the
moste parte seeme so plaine, that no childe doth doubte of them,
thinke not therfore that the art vnto whiche they serue, is
simple, other childishe, but rather consider, howe certayne the
profes of that arte is, y^t hath for his groũdes soche playne
truthes, & as I may say, suche vndowbtfull and sensible
principles, And this is the cause why all learned menne dooth
approue the certenty of geometry, and cõsequently of the other
artes mathematical, which haue the grounds (as Arithmeticke,
musike and astronomy) aboue all other artes and sciences, that
be vsed amõgest men. Thus muche haue I sayd of the first
principles, and now will I go on with the theoremes, whiche I do
only by examples declare, minding to reserue the proofes to a
peculiar boke which I will then set forth, when I perceaue this
to be thankfully taken of the readers of it.

  [Illustration]




  The theoremes of Geometry brieflye
  declared by shorte examples.


_The firste Theoreme._

  When .ij. triangles be so drawen, that the one of thẽ hath
  ij. sides equal to ij sides of the other triangle, and that
  the angles enclosed with those sides, bee equal also in
  bothe triangles, then is the thirde side likewise equall in
  them. And the whole triangles be of one greatnes, and euery
  angle in the one equall to his matche angle in the other,
  I meane those angles that be inclosed with like sides.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

This triangle A.B.C. hath ij. sides (that is to say) C.A. and
C.B, equal to ij. sides of the other triangle F.G.H, for A.C. is
equall to F.G, and B.C. is equall to G.H. And also the angle C.
contayned beetweene F.G, and G.H, for both of them answere to
the eight parte of a circle. Therfore doth it remayne that A.B.
whiche is the thirde lyne in the firste triangle, doth agre in
lengthe with F.H, w^{ch} is the third line in y^e secõd triãgle
& y^e hole triãgle. A.B.C. must nedes be equal to y^e hole
triangle F.G.H. And euery corner equall to his match, that is to
say, A. equall to F, B. to H, and C. to G, for those bee called
match corners, which are inclosed with like sides, other els do
lye against like sides.


_The second Theoreme._

  In twileke triangles the ij. corners that be about the groũd
  line, are equal togither. And if the sides that be equal, be
  drawẽ out in lẽgth thẽ wil the corners that are vnder the
  ground line, be equal also togither.

_Example_

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is a twileke triangle, for the one side A.C, is equal to
the other side B.C. And therfore I saye that the inner corners
A. and B, which are about the ground lines, (that is A.B.) be
equall togither. And farther if C.A. and C.B. bee drawen forthe
vnto D. and E. as you se that I haue drawen them, then saye I
that the two vtter angles vnder A. and B, are equal also
togither: as the theorem said. The profe wherof, as of al the
rest, shal apeare in Euclide, whome I intende to set foorth in
english with sondry new additions, if I may perceaue that it
wilbe thankfully taken.


_The thirde Theoreme._

  If in annye triangle there bee twoo angles equall togither,
  then shall the sides, that lie against those angles, be
  equal also.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

This triangle A.B.C. hath two corners equal eche to other, that
is A. and B, as I do by supposition limite, wherfore it foloweth
that the side A.C, is equal to that other side B.C, for the side
A.C, lieth againste the angle B, and the side B.C, lieth against
the angle A.


_The fourth Theoreme._

  When two lines are drawen frõ the endes of anie one line,
  and meet in anie pointe, it is not possible to draw two
  other lines of like lengthe ech to his match that shal begĩ
  at the same pointes, and end in anie other pointe then the
  twoo first did.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The first line is A.B, on which I haue erected two other lines
A.C, and B.C, that meete in the pricke C, wherefore I say, it is
not possible to draw ij. other lines from A. and B. which shal
mete in one point (as you se A.D. and B.D. mete in D.) but that
the match lines shalbe vnequal, I mean by _match lines_, the two
lines on one side, that is the ij. on the right hand, or the ij.
on the lefte hand, for as you se in this example A.D. is longer
thẽ A.C, and B.C. is longer then B.D. And it is not possible,
that A.C. and A.D. shall bee of one lengthe, if B.D. and B.C.
bee like longe. For if one couple of matche lines be equall (as
the same example A.E. is equall to A.C. in length) then must
B.E. needes be vnequall to B.C. as you see, it is here shorter.


_The fifte Theoreme._

  If two triãgles haue there ij. sides equal one to an other,
  and their groũd lines equal also, then shall their corners,
  whiche are contained betwene like sides, be equall one to
  the other.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Because these two triangles A.B.C, and D.E.F. haue two sides
equall one to an other. For A.C. is equall to D.F, and B.C. is
equall to E.F, and again their groũd lines A.B. and D.E. are
lyke in length, therfore is eche angle of the one triangle
equall to ech angle of the other, comparyng together those
angles that are contained within lyke sides, so is A. equall
to D, B. to E, and C. to F, for they are contayned within like
sides, as before is said.


_The sixt Theoreme._

  When any right line standeth on an other, the ij. angles
  that thei make, other are both right angles, or els equall
  to .ij. righte angles.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. is a right line, and on it there doth light another right
line, drawen from C. perpendicularly on it, therefore saie I,
that the .ij. angles that thei do make, are .ij. right angles as
maie be iudged by the definition of a right angle. But in the
second part of the example, where A.B. beyng still the right
line, on which D. standeth in slope wayes, the two angles that
be made of them are not righte angles, but yet they are equall
to two righte angles, for so muche as the one is to greate, more
then a righte angle, so muche iuste is the other to little, so
that bothe togither are equall to two right angles, as you maye
perceiue.


_The seuenth Theoreme._

  If .ij. lines be drawen to any one pricke in an other lyne,
  and those .ij. lines do make with the fyrst lyne, two right
  angles, other suche as be equall to two right angles, and
  that towarde one hande, than those two lines doo make one
  streyght lyne.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. is a streyght lyne, on which there doth lyght two other
lines one frome D, and the other frome C, but considerynge that
they meete in one pricke E, and that the angles on one hand be
equal to two right corners (as the laste theoreme dothe declare)
therfore maye D.E. and E.C. be counted for one ryght lyne.


_The eight Theoreme._

  When two lines do cut one an other crosseways they do make
  their matche angles equall.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

What matche angles are, I haue tolde you in the definitions of
the termes. And here A, and B. are matche corners in this
example, as are also C. and D, so that the corner A, is equall
to B, and the angle C, is equall to D.


_The nynth Theoreme._

  Whan so euer in any triangle the line of one side is drawen
  forthe in lengthe, that vtter angle is greater than any of
  the two inner corners, that ioyne not with it.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The triangle A.D.C hathe hys grounde lyne A.C. drawen forthe in
lengthe vnto B, so that the vtter corner that it maketh at C, is
greater then any of the two inner corners that lye againste it,
and ioyne not wyth it, whyche are A. and D, for they both are
lesser then a ryght angle, and be sharpe angles, but C. is a
blonte angle, and therfore greater then a ryght angle.


_The tenth Theoreme._

  In euery triangle any .ij. corners, how so euer you take
  thẽ, ar lesse thẽ ij. right corners.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

In the firste triangle E, whiche is a threlyke, and therfore
hath all his angles sharpe, take anie twoo corners that you
will, and you shall perceiue that they be lesser then ij. right
corners, for in euery triangle that hath all sharpe corners (as
you see it to be in this example) euery corner is lesse then a
right corner. And therfore also euery two corners must nedes be
lesse then two right corners. Furthermore in that other triangle
marked with M, whiche hath .ij. sharpe corners and one right,
any .ij. of them also are lesse then two right angles. For
though you take the right corner for one, yet the other whiche
is a sharpe corner, is lesse then a right corner. And so it is
true in all kindes of triangles, as you maie perceiue more
plainly by the .xxij. Theoreme.


_The .xi. Theoreme._

  In euery triangle, the greattest side lieth against the
  greattest angle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

As in this triangle A.B.C, the greattest angle is C. And A.B.
(whiche is the side that lieth against it) is the greatest and
longest side. And contrary waies, as A.C. is the shortest side,
so B. (whiche is the angle liyng against it) is the smallest and
sharpest angle, for this doth folow also, that is the longest
side lyeth against the greatest angle, so it that foloweth


_The twelft Theoreme._

  In euery triangle the greattest angle lieth against the
  longest side.

For these ij. theoremes are one in truthe.


_The thirtenth theoreme._

  In euerie triangle anie ij. sides togither how so euer you
  take them, are longer thẽ the thirde.

  [Illustration]

For example you shal take this triangle A.B.C. which hath a very
blunt corner, and therfore one of his sides greater a good deale
then any of the other, and yet the ij. lesser sides togither ar
greater then it. And if it bee so in a blunte angeled triangle,
it must nedes be true in all other, for there is no other kinde
of triangles that hathe the one side so greate aboue the other
sids, as thei y^t haue blunt corners.


_The fourtenth theoreme._

  If there be drawen from the endes of anie side of a triangle
  .ij. lines metinge within the triangle, those two lines
  shall be lesse then the other twoo sides of the triangle,
  but yet the corner that thei make, shall bee greater then
  that corner of the triangle, whiche standeth ouer it.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is a triangle. on whose ground line A.B. there is drawen
ij. lines, from the ij. endes of it, I say from A. and B, and
they meete within the triangle in the pointe D, wherfore I say,
that as those two lynes A.D. and B.D, are lesser then A.C. and
B.C, so the angle D, is greatter then the angle C, which is the
angle against it.


_The fiftenth Theoreme._

  If a triangle haue two sides equall to the two sides of an
  other triangle, but yet the ãgle that is contained betwene
  those sides, greater then the like angle in the other
  triangle, then is his grounde line greater then the grounde
  line of the other triangle.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

A.B.C. is a triangle, whose sides A.C. and B.C, are equall to
E.D. and D.F, the two sides of the triangle D.E.F, but bicause
the angle in D, is greatter then the angle C. (whiche are the
ij. angles contayned betwene the equal lynes) therfore muste the
ground line E.F. nedes bee greatter thenne the grounde line A.B,
as you se plainely.

  [Illustration]


_The xvi. Theoreme._

  If a triangle haue twoo sides equalle to the two sides of an
  other triangle, but yet hathe a longer ground line thẽ that
  other triangle, then is his angle that lieth betwene the
  equall sides, greater thẽ the like corner in the other
  triangle.

_Example._

This Theoreme is nothing els, but the sentence of the last
Theoreme turned backward, and therfore nedeth none other profe
nother declaration, then the other example.


_The seuententh Theoreme._

  If two triangles be such sort, that two angles of the one be
  equal to ij. angles of the other, and that one side of the
  one be equal to on side of the other, whether that side do
  adioyne to one of the equall corners, or els lye againste
  one of them, then shall the other twoo sides of those
  triangles bee equalle togither, and the thirde corner also
  shall be equall in those two triangles.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Bicause that A.B.C, the one triangle hath two corners A. and B,
equal to D.E, that are twoo corners of the other triangle.
D.E.F. and that they haue one side in theym bothe equall, that
is A.B, which is equall to D.E, therefore shall both the other
ij. sides be equall one to an other, as A.C. and B.C. equall to
D.F. and E.F, and also the thirde angle in them both shal be
equall, that is, the angle C. shal be equall to the angle F.


_The eightenth Theoreme._

  When on ij. right lines ther is drawen a third right line
  crosse waies, and maketh .ij. matche corners of the one line
  equall to the like twoo matche corners of the other line,
  then ar those two lines gemmow lines, or paralleles.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The .ij. fyrst lynes are A.B. and C.D, the thyrd lyne that
crosseth them is E.F. And bycause that E.F. maketh ij. matche
angles with A.B, equall to .ij. other lyke matche angles on C.D,
(that is to say E.G, equall to K.F, and M.N. equall also to
H.L.) therfore are those ij. lynes A.B. and C.D. gemow lynes,
vnderstand here by _lyke matche corners_, those that go one way
as doth E.G, and K.F, lyke ways N.M, and H.L, for as E.G. and
H.L, other N.M. and K.F. go not one waie, so be not they lyke
match corners.


_The nyntenth Theoreme._

  When on two right lines there is drawen a thirde right line
  crossewaies, and maketh the ij. ouer corners towarde one
  hande equall togither, then ar those .ij. lines paralleles.
  And in like maner if two inner corners toward one hande, be
  equall to .ii. right angles.

_Example._

As the Theoreme dothe speake of .ij. ouer angles, so muste you
vnderstande also of .ij. nether angles, for the iudgement is
lyke in bothe. Take for example the figure of the last theoreme,
where A.B, and C.D, be called paralleles also, bicause E. and K,
(whiche are .ij. ouer corners) are equall, and lykewaies L.
and M. And so are in lyke maner the nether corners N. and H, and
G. and F. Nowe to the seconde parte of the theoreme, those .ij.
lynes A.B. and C.D, shall be called paralleles, because the ij.
inner corners. As for example those two that bee toward the
right hande (that is G. and L.) are equall (by the fyrst parte
of this nyntenth theoreme) therfore muste G. and L. be equall to
two ryght angles.


_The xx. Theoreme._

  When a right line is drawen crosse ouer .ij. right gemow
  lines, it maketh .ij. matche corners of the one line, equall
  to two matche corners of the other line, and also bothe ouer
  corners of one hande equall togither, and bothe nether
  corners like waies, and more ouer two inner corners, and two
  vtter corners also towarde one hande, equall to two right
  angles.

_Example._

Bycause A.B. and C.D, (in the laste figure) are paralleles,
therefore the two matche corners of the one lyne, as E.G. be
equall vnto the .ij. matche corners of the other line, that is
K.F, and lykewaies M.N, equall to H.L. And also E. and K. bothe
ouer corners of the lefte hande equall togyther, and so are M.
and L, the two ouer corners on the ryghte hande, in lyke maner
N. and H, the two nether corners on the lefte hande, equall eche
to other, and G. and F. the two nether angles on the right hande
equall togither.

¶ Farthermore yet G. and L. the .ij. inner angles on the right
hande bee equall to two right angles, and so are M. and F. the
.ij. vtter angles on the same hande, in lyke manner shall you
say of N. and K. the two inner corners on the left hand. and of
E. and H. the two vtter corners on the same hande. And thus you
see the agreable sentence of these .iii. theoremes to tende to
this purpose, to declare by the angles how to iudge paralleles,
and contrary waies howe you may by paralleles iudge the
proportion of the angles.


_The xxi. Theoreme._

  What so euer lines be paralleles to any other line, those
  same be paralleles togither.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. is a gemow line, or a parallele vnto C.D. And E.F,
lykewaies is a parallele vnto C.D. Wherfore it foloweth, that
A.B. must nedes bee a parallele vnto E.F.


_The .xxij. theoreme._

  In euery triangle, when any side is drawen forth in length,
  the vtter angle is equall to the ij. inner angles that lie
  againste it. And all iij. inner angles of any triangle are
  equall to ij. right angles.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The triangle beeyng A.D.E. and the syde A.E. drawen foorthe vnto
B, there is made an vtter corner, whiche is C, and this vtter
corner C, is equall to bother the inner corners that lye agaynst
it, whyche are A. and D. And all thre inner corners, that is to
say, A.D. and E, are equall to two ryght corners, whereof it
foloweth, _that all the three corners of any one triangle are
equall to all the three corners of euerye other triangle_. For
what so euer thynges are equalle to anny one thyrde thynge,
those same are equalle togitther, by the fyrste common sentence,
so that bycause all the .iij. angles of euery triangle are
equall to two ryghte angles, and all ryghte angles bee equall
togyther (by the fourth request) therfore must it nedes folow,
that all the thre corners of euery triangle (accomptyng them
togyther) are equall to iij. corners of any triangle, taken all
togyther.


_The .xxiii. theoreme._

  When any ij. right lines doth touche and couple .ij. other
  righte lines, whiche are equall in length and paralleles,
  and if those .ij. lines bee drawen towarde one hande, then
  are thei also equall together, and paralleles.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. and C.D. are ij. ryght lynes and paralleles and equall in
length, and they ar touched and ioyned togither by ij. other
lynes A.C. and B.D, this beyng so, and A.C. and B.D. beyng
drawen towarde one syde (that is to saye, bothe towarde the
lefte hande) therefore are A.C. and B.D. bothe equall and also
paralleles.


_The .xxiiij. theoreme._

  In any likeiamme the two contrary sides ar equall togither,
  and so are eche .ij. contrary angles, and the bias line that
  is drawen in it, dothe diuide it into two equall portions.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Here ar two likeiammes ioyned togither, the one is a longe
square A.B.E, and the other is a losengelike D.C.E.F. which ij.
likeiammes ar proued equall togither, bycause they haue one
ground line, that is, F.E, And are made betwene one payre of
gemow lines, I meane A.D. and E.H. By this Theoreme may you know
the arte of the righte measuringe of likeiammes, as in my booke
of measuring I wil more plainly declare.


_The xxvi. Theoreme._

  All likeiammes that haue equal grounde lines and are drawen
  betwene one paire of paralleles, are equal togither.

_Example._

Fyrste you muste marke the difference betwene this Theoreme and
the laste, for the laste Theoreme presupposed to the diuers
likeiammes one ground line common to them, but this theoreme
doth presuppose a diuers ground line for euery likeiamme, only
meaning them to be equal in length, though they be diuers in
numbre. As for example. In the last figure ther are two
parallels, A.D. and E.H, and betwene them are drawen thre
likeiammes, the firste is, A.B.E.F, the second is E.C.D.F, and
the thirde is C.G.H.D. The firste and the seconde haue one
ground line, (that is E.F.) and therfore in so muche as they are
betwene one paire of paralleles, they are equall accordinge to
the fiue and twentye Theoreme, but the thirde likeiamme that is
C.G.H.D. hathe his grounde line G.H, seuerall frome the other,
but yet equall vnto it. wherefore the third likeiam is equall to
the other two firste likeiammes. And for a proofe that G.H.
being the ground or groũd line of the third likeiamme, is equal
to E.F, whiche is the ground line to both the other likeiams,
that may be thus declared, G.H. is equall to C.D, seynge they
are the contrary sides of one likeiamme (by the foure and twẽty
theoreme) and so are C.D. and E.F. by the same theoreme.
Therfore seynge both those ground lines E.F. and G.H, are equall
to one thirde line (that is C.D.) they must nedes bee equall
togyther by the firste common sentence.


_The xxvii. Theoreme._

  All triangles hauinge one grounde lyne, and standing betwene
  one paire of parallels, ar equall togither.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. and C.F. are twoo gemowe lines, betweene which there be
made two triangles, A.D.E. and D.E.B, so that D.E, is the common
ground line to them bothe. wherfore it doth folow, that those
two triangles A.D.E. and D.E.B. are equall eche to other.


_The xxviij. Theoreme._

  All triangles that haue like long ground lines, and bee made
  betweene one paire of gemow lines, are equall togither.

_Example._

Example of this Theoreme you may see in the last figure, where
as sixe triangles made betwene those two gemowe lines A.B. and
C.F, the first triangle is A.C.D, the seconde is A.D.E, the
thirde is A.D.B, the fourth is A.B.E, the fifte is D.E.B, and
the sixte is B.E.F, of which sixe triangles, A.D.E. and D.E.B.
are equall, bicause they haue one common grounde line. And so
likewise A.B.E. and A.B.D, whose commen grounde line is A.B, but
A.C.D. is equal to B.E.F, being both betwene one couple of
parallels, not bicause thei haue one ground line, but bicause
they haue their ground lines equall, for C.D. is equall to E.F,
as you may declare thus. C.D, is equall to A.B. (by the foure
and twenty Theoreme) for thei are two contrary sides of one
lykeiamme. A.C.D.B, and E.F by the same theoreme, is equall to
A.B, for thei ar the two y^e contrary sides of the likeiamme,
A.E.F.B, wherfore C.D. must needes be equall to E.F. like wise
the triangle A.C.D, is equal to A.B.E, bicause they ar made
betwene one paire of parallels and haue their groundlines like,
I meane C.D. and A.B. Againe A.D.E, is equal to eche of them
both, for his ground line D.E, is equall to A.B, inso muche as
they are the contrary sides of one likeiamme, that is the long
square A.B.D.E. And thus may you proue the equalnes of all the
reste.


_The xxix. Theoreme._

  Al equal triangles that are made on one grounde line, and
  rise one waye, must needes be betwene one paire of
  parallels.

_Example._

Take for example A.D.E, and D.E.B, which (as the xxvij.
conclusion dooth proue) are equall togither, and as you see,
they haue one ground line D.E. And againe they rise towarde one
side, that is to say, vpwarde toward the line A.B, wherfore they
must needes be inclosed betweene one paire of parallels, which
are heere in this example A.B. and D.E.


_The thirty Theoreme._

  Equal triangles that haue their ground lines equal, and be
  drawẽ toward one side, ar made betwene one paire of
  paralleles.

_Example._

The example that declared the last theoreme, maye well serue to
the declaracion of this also. For those ij. theoremes do diffre
but in this one pointe, that the laste theoreme meaneth of
triangles, that haue one ground line common to them both, and
this theoreme dothe presuppose the grounde lines to bee diuers,
but yet of one length, as A.C.D, and B.E.F, as they are ij.
equall triangles approued, by the eighte and twentye Theorem, so
in the same Theorem it is declared, y^t their groũd lines are
equall togither, that is C.D, and E.F, now this beeynge true,
and considering that they are made towarde one side, it
foloweth, that they are made betwene one paire of parallels when
I saye, drawen towarde one side, I meane that the triangles must
be drawen other both vpward frome one parallel, other els both
downward, for if the one be drawen vpward and the other
downward, then are they drawen betwene two paire of parallels,
presupposinge one to bee drawen by their ground line, and then
do they ryse toward contrary sides.


_The xxxi. theoreme._

  If a likeiamme haue one ground line with a triangle, and be
  drawen betwene one paire of paralleles, then shall the
  likeiamme be double to the triangle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.H. and B.G. are .ij. gemow lines, betwene which there is made
a triangle B.C.G, and a lykeiamme, A.B.G.C, whiche haue a
grounde lyne, that is to saye, B.G. Therfore doth it folow that
the lyke iamme A.B.G.C. is double to the triangle B.C.G. For
euery halfe of that lykeiamme is equall to the triangle, I meane
A.B.F.E. other F.E.C.G. as you may coniecture by the .xi.
conclusion geometrical.

And as this Theoreme dothe speake of a triangle and likeiamme
that haue one groundelyne, so is it true also, yf theyr
groundelynes bee equall, though they bee dyuers, so that thei be
made betwene one payre of paralleles. And hereof may you
perceaue the reason, why in measuryng the platte of a triangle,
you must multiply the perpendicular lyne by halfe the grounde
lyne, or els the hole grounde lyne by halfe the perpendicular,
for by any of these bothe waies is there made a lykeiamme equall
to halfe suche a one as shulde be made on the same hole grounde
lyne with the triangle, and betweene one payre of paralleles.
Therfore as that lykeiamme is double to the triangle, so the
halfe of it, must needes be equall to the triangle. Compare the
.xi. conclusion with this theoreme.


_The .xxxij. Theoreme._

  In all likeiammes where there are more than one made aboute
  one bias line, the fill squares of euery of them must nedes
  be equall.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

Fyrst before I declare the examples, it shal be mete to shew the
true vnderstãdyng of this theorem. [Sidenote: _Bias lyne._]
Therfore by the _Bias line_, I meane that lyne, whiche in any
square figure dooth runne from corner to corner. And euery
square which is diuided by that bias line into equall halues
from corner to corner (that is to say, into .ij. equall
triangles) those be counted _to stande aboute one bias line_,
and the other squares, whiche touche that bias line, with one of
their corners onely, those doo I call _Fyll squares_, [Sidenote:
_Fyll squares._] accordyng to the greke name, which is
_anapleromata_, [Sidenote: ἀναπληρώματα] and called in latin
_supplementa_, bycause that they make one generall square,
includyng and enclosyng the other diuers squares, as in this
exãple H.C.E.N. is one square likeiamme, and L.M.G.C. is an
other, whiche bothe are made aboute one bias line, that is N.M,
than K.L.H.C. and C.E.F.G. are .ij. fyll squares, for they doo
fyll vp the sydes of the .ij. fyrste square lykeiammes, in suche
sorte, that all them foure is made one greate generall square
K.M.F.N.

Nowe to the sentence of the theoreme, I say, that the .ij. fill
squares, H.K.L.C. and C.E.F.G. are both equall togither, (as it
shall bee declared in the booke of proofes) bicause they are the
fill squares of two likeiammes made aboute one bias line, as the
exaumple sheweth. Conferre the twelfthe conclusion with this
theoreme.


_The xxxiij. Theoreme._

  In all right anguled triangles, the square of that side
  whiche lieth against the right angle, is equall to the .ij.
  squares of both the other sides.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B.C. is a triangle, hauing a ryght angle in B. Wherfore it
foloweth, that the square of A.C, (whiche is the side that lyeth
agaynst the right angle) shall be as muche as the two squares of
A.B. and B.C. which are the other .ij. sides.

¶ By the square of any lyne, you muste vnderstande a figure made
iuste square, hauyng all his iiij. sydes equall to that line,
whereof it is the square, so is A.C.F, the square of A.C.
Lykewais A.B.D. is the square of A.B. And B.C.E. is the square
of B.C. Now by the numbre of the diuisions in eche of these
squares, may you perceaue not onely what the square of any line
is called, but also that the theoreme is true, and expressed
playnly bothe by lines and numbre. For as you see, the greatter
square (that is A.C.F.) hath fiue diuisions on eche syde, all
equall togyther, and those in the whole square are twenty and
fiue. Nowe in the left square, whiche is A.B.D. there are but
.iij. of those diuisions in one syde, and that yeldeth nyne in
the whole. So lykeways you see in the meane square A.C.E. in
euery syde .iiij. partes, whiche in the whole amount vnto
sixtene. Nowe adde togyther all the partes of the two lesser
squares, that is to saye, sixtene and nyne, and you perceyue
that they make twenty and fiue, whyche is an equall numbre to
the summe of the greatter square.

By this theoreme you may vnderstand a redy way to know the syde
of any ryght anguled triangle that is vnknowen, so that you
knowe the lengthe of any two sydes of it. For by tournynge the
two sydes certayne into theyr squares, and so addynge them
togyther, other subtractynge the one from the other (accordyng
as in the vse of these theoremes I haue sette foorthe) and then
fyndynge the roote of the square that remayneth, which roote
(I meane the syde of the square) is the iuste length of the
vnknowen syde, whyche is sought for. But this appertaineth to
the thyrde booke, and therefore I wyll speake no more of it at
this tyme.


_The xxxiiij. Theoreme._

  If so be it, that in any triangle, the square of the one
  syde be equall to the .ij. squares of the other .ij. sides,
  than must nedes that corner be a right corner, which is
  conteined betwene those two lesser sydes.

_Example._

As in the figure of the laste Theoreme, bicause A.C, made in
square, is asmuch as the square of A.B, and also as the square
of B.C. ioyned bothe togyther, therefore the angle that is
inclosed betwene those .ij. lesser lynes, A.B. and B.C. (that is
to say) the angle B. whiche lieth against the line A.C, must
nedes be a ryght angle. This theoreme dothe so depende of the
truthe of the laste, that whan you perceaue the truthe of the
one, you can not iustly doubt of the others truthe, for they
conteine one sentence, contrary waies pronounced.


_The .xxxv. theoreme._

  If there be set forth .ij. right lines, and one of them
  parted into sundry partes, how many or few so euer they be,
  the square that is made of those ij. right lines proposed,
  is equal to all the squares, that are made of the vndiuided
  line, and euery parte of the diuided line.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

The ij. lines proposed ar A.B. and C.D, and the lyne A.B. is
deuided into thre partes by E. and F. Now saith this theoreme,
that the square that is made of those two whole lines A.B. and
C.D, so that the line A.B. stãdeth for the lẽgth of the square,
and the other line C.D. for the bredth of the same. That square
(I say) wil be equall to all the squares that be made, of the
vndiueded lyne (which is C.D.) and euery portion of the diuided
line. And to declare that particularly, Fyrst I make an other
line G.K, equall to the line .C.D, and the line G.H. to be equal
to the line A.B, and to bee diuided into iij. like partes, so
that G.M. is equall to A.E, and M.N. equal to E.F, and then
muste N.H. nedes remaine equall to F.B. Then of those ij. lines
G.K, vndeuided, and G.H. which is deuided, I make a square, that
is G.H.K.L, In which square if I drawe crosse lines frome one
side to the other, according to the diuisions of the line G.H,
then will it appear plaine, that the theoreme doth affirme. For
the first square G.M.O.K, must needes be equal to the square of
the line C.D, and the first portiõ of the diuided line, which is
A.E, for bicause their sides are equall. And so the seconde
square that is M.N.P.O, shall be equall to the square of C.D,
and the second part of A.B, that is E.F. Also the third square
which is N.H.L.P, must of necessitee be equal to the square of
C.D, and F.B, bicause those lines be so coupeled that euery
couple are equall in the seuerall figures. And so shal you not
only in this example, but in all other finde it true, that if
one line be deuided into sondry partes, and an other line whole
and vndeuided, matched with him in a square, that square which
is made of these two whole lines, is as muche iuste and equally,
as all the seuerall squares, whiche bee made of the whole line
vndiuided, and euery part seuerally of the diuided line.


_The xxxvi. Theoreme._

  If a right line be parted into ij. partes, as chaunce may
  happe, the square that is made of the whole line, is equall
  to bothe the squares that are made of the same line, and the
  twoo partes of it seuerally.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line propounded beyng A.B. and deuided, as chaunce
happeneth, in C. into ij. vnequall partes, I say that the square
made of the hole line A.B, is equal to the two squares made of
the same line with the twoo partes of itselfe, as with A.C, and
with C.B, for the square D.E.F.G. is equal to the two other
partial squares of D.H.K.G and H.E.F.K, but that the greater
square is equall to the square of the whole line A.B, and the
partiall squares equall to the squares of the second partes of
the same line ioyned with the whole line, your eye may iudg
without muche declaracion, so that I shall not neede to make
more exposition therof, but that you may examine it, as you did
in the laste Theoreme.


_The xxxvij. Theoreme._

  If a right line be deuided by chaunce, as it maye happen,
  the square that is made of the whole line, and one of the
  partes of it which soeuer it be, shal be equall to that
  square that is made of the ij. partes ioyned togither, and
  to an other square made of that part, which was before
  ioyned with the whole line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line A.B. is deuided in C. into twoo partes, though not
equally, of which two partes for an example I take the first,
that is A.C, and of it I make one side of a square, as for
example D.G. accomptinge those two lines to be equall, the other
side of the square is D.E, whiche is equall to the whole line
A.B.

Now may it appeare, to your eye, that the great square made of
the whole line A.B, and of one of his partes that is A.C, (which
is equall with D.G.) is equal to two partiall squares, whereof
the one is made of the saide greatter portion A.C, in as muche
as not only D.G, beynge one of his sides, but also D.H. beinge
the other side, are eche of them equall to A.C. The second
square is H.E.F.K, in which the one side H.E, is equal to C.B,
being the lesser parte of the line, A.B, and E.F. is equall to
A.C. which is the greater parte of the same line. So that those
two squares D.H.K.G and H.E.F.K, bee bothe of them no more then
the greate square D.E.F.G, accordinge to the wordes of the
Theoreme afore saide.


_The xxxviij. Theoreme._

  If a righte line be deuided by chaunce, into partes, the
  square that is made of that whole line, is equall to both
  the squares that ar made of eche parte of the line, and
  moreouer to two squares made of the one portion of the
  diuided line ioyned with the other in square.

  [Illustration]

_Example._

Lette the diuided line bee A.B, and parted in C, into twoo
partes: Nowe saithe the Theoreme, that the square of the whole
lyne A.B, is as mouche iuste as the square of A.C, and the
square of C.B, eche by it selfe, and more ouer by as muche
twise, as A.C. and C.B. ioyned in one square will make. For as
you se, the great square D.E.F.G, conteyneth in hym foure lesser
squares, of whiche the first and the greatest is N.M.F.K, and is
equall to the square of the lyne A.C. The second square is the
lest of them all, that is D.H.L.N, and it is equall to the
square of the line C.B. Then are there two other longe squares
both of one bygnes, that is H.E.N.M. and L.N.G.K, eche of them
both hauyng .ij. sides equall to A.C, the longer parte of the
diuided line, and there other two sides equall to C.B, beeyng he
shorter parte of the said line A.B.

So is that greatest square, beeyng made of the hole lyne A.B,
equal to the ij. squares of eche of his partes seuerally, and
more by as muche iust as .ij. longe squares, made of the longer
portion of the diuided lyne ioyned in square with the shorter
parte of the same diuided line, as the theoreme wold. And as
here I haue put an example of a lyne diuided into .ij. partes,
so the theoreme is true of all diuided lines, of what number so
euer the partes be, foure, fyue, or syxe. etc.

This theoreme hath great vse, not only in geometrie, but also in
arithmetike, as herafter I will declare in conuenient place.


_The .xxxix. theoreme._

  If a right line be deuided into two equall partes, and one
  of these .ij. partes diuided agayn into two other partes, as
  happeneth the longe square that is made of the thyrd or
  later part of that diuided line, with the residue of the
  same line, and the square of the mydlemoste parte, are bothe
  togither equall to the square of halfe the firste line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line A.B. is diuided into ij. equal partes in C, and that
parte C.B. is diuided agayne as hapneth in D. Wherfore saith the
Theorem that the long square made of D.B. and A.D, with the
square of C.D. (which is the mydle portion) shall bothe be
equall to the square of half the lyne A.B, that is to saye, to
the square of A.C, or els of C.D, which make all one. The long
square F.G.N.O. whiche is the longe square that the theoreme
speaketh of, is made of .ij. long squares, wherof the fyrst is
F.G.M.K, and the seconde is K.N.O.M. The square of the myddle
portion is L.M.O.P. and the square of the halfe of the fyrste
lyne is E.K.Q.L. Nowe by the theoreme, that longe square
F.G.M.O, with the iuste square L.M.O.P, muste bee equall to the
greate square E.K.Q.L, whyche thynge bycause it seemeth somewhat
difficult to vnderstande, althoughe I intende not here to make
demonstrations of the Theoremes, bycause it is appoynted to be
done in the newe edition of Euclide, yet I wyll shew you brefely
how the equalitee of the partes doth stande. And fyrst I say,
that where the comparyson of equalitee is made betweene the
greate square (whiche is made of halfe the line A.B.) and two
other, where of the fyrst is the longe square F.G.N.O, and the
second is the full square L.M.O.P, which is one portion of the
great square all redye, and so is that longe square K.N.M.O,
beynge a parcell also of the longe square F.G.N.O, Wherfore as
those two partes are common to bothe partes compared in
equalitee, and therfore beynge bothe abated from eche parte, if
the reste of bothe the other partes bee equall, than were those
whole partes equall before: Nowe the reste of the great square,
those two lesser squares beyng taken away, is that longe square
E.N.P.Q, whyche is equall to the long square F.G.K.M, beyng the
rest of the other parte. And that they two be equall, theyr
sydes doo declare. For the longest lynes that is F.K and E.Q are
equall, and so are the shorter lynes, F.G, and E.N, and so
appereth the truthe of the Theoreme.


_The .xl. theoreme._

  If a right line be diuided into .ij. euen partes, and an
  other right line annexed to one ende of that line, so that
  it make one righte line with the firste. The longe square
  that is made of this whole line so augmented, and the
  portion that is added, with the square of halfe the right
  line, shall be equall to the square of that line, whiche is
  compounded of halfe the firste line, and the parte newly
  added.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The fyrst lyne propounded is A.B, and it is diuided into ij.
equall partes in C, and an other ryght lyne, I meane B.D annexed
to one ende of the fyrste lyne.

Nowe say I, that the long square A.D.M.K, is made of the whole
lyne so augmẽted, that is A.D, and the portiõ annexed, y^t is
D.M, for D.M is equall to B.D, wherfore y^t long square A.D.M.K,
with the square of halfe the first line, that is E.G.H.L, is
equall to the great square E.F.D.C. whiche square is made of the
line C.D. that is to saie, of a line compounded of halfe the
first line, beyng C.B, and the portion annexed, that is B.D. And
it is easyly perceaued, if you consyder that the longe square
A.C.L.K. (whiche onely is lefte out of the great square) hath
another longe square equall to hym, and to supply his steede in
the great square, and that is G.F.M.H. For their sydes be of
lyke lines in length.


_The xli. Theoreme._

  If a right line bee diuided by chaunce, the square of the
  same whole line, and the square of one of his partes are
  iuste equall to the lõg square of the whole line, and the
  sayde parte twise taken, and more ouer to the square of the
  other parte of the sayd line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

A.B. is the line diuided in C. And D.E.F.G, is the square of the
whole line, D.H.K.M. is the square of the lesser portion (whyche
I take for an example) and therfore must bee twise reckened.
Nowe I saye that those ij. squares are equall to two longe
squares of the whole line A.B, and his sayd portion A.C, and
also to the square of the other portion of the sayd first line,
whiche portion is C.B, and his square K.N.F.L. In this theoreme
there is no difficultie, if you cõsyder that the litle square
D.H.K.M. is .iiij. tymes reckened, that is to say, fyrst of all
as a parte of the greatest square, whiche is D.E.F.G. Secondly
he is rekned by him selfe. Thirdely he is accompted as parcell
of the long square D.E.N.M, And fourthly he is taken as a part
of the other long square D.H.L.G, so that in as muche as he is
twise reckened in one part of the comparisõ of equalitee, and
twise also in the second parte, there can rise none occasion of
errour or doubtfulnes therby.


_The xlij. Theoreme._

  If a right line be deuided as chance happeneth the iiij.
  long squares, that may be made of that whole line and one of
  his partes with the square of the other part, shall be
  equall to the square that is made of the whole line and the
  saide first portion ioyned to him in lengthe as one whole
  line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The firste line is A.B, and is deuided by C. into two vnequall
partes as happeneth. The long square of yt, and his lesser
portion A.C, is foure times drawen, the first is E.G.M.K, the
seconde is K.M.Q.O, the third is H.K.R.S, and the fourthe is
K.L.S.T. And where as it appeareth that one of the little
squares (I meane K.L.P.O) is reckened twise, ones as parcell of
the second long square and agayne as parte of the thirde long
square, to auoide ambiguite, you may place one insteede of it,
an other square of equalitee, with it. that is to saye, D.E.K.H,
which was at no tyme accompting as parcell of any one of them,
and then haue you iiij. long squares distinctly made of the
whole line A.B, and his lesser portion A.C. And within them is
there a greate full square P.Q.T.V. whiche is the iust square of
B.C, beynge the greatter portion of the line A.B. And that those
fiue squares doo make iuste as muche as the whole square of that
longer line D.G, (whiche is as longe as A.B, and A.C. ioyned
togither) it may be iudged easyly by the eye, sith that one
greate square doth comprehẽd in it all the other fiue squares,
that is to say, foure long squares (as is before mencioned) and
one full square. which is the intent of the Theoreme.


_The xliij. Theoreme._

  If a right line be deuided into ij. equal partes first, and
  one of those parts again into other ij. parts, as chaũce
  hapeneth, the square that is made of the last part of the
  line so diuided, and the square of the residue of that whole
  line, are double to the square of halfe that line, and to
  the square of the middle portion of the same line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line to be deuided is A.B, and is parted in C. into two
equall partes, and then C.B, is deuided againe into two partes
in D, so that the meaninge of the Theoreme, is that the square
of D.B. which is the latter parte of the line, and the square of
A.D, which is the residue of the whole line. Those two squares,
I say, ar double to the square of one halfe of the line, and to
the square of C.D, which is the middle portion of those thre
diuisions. Which thing that you maye more easilye perceaue,
I haue drawen foure squares, whereof the greatest being marked
with E. is the square of A.D. The next, which is marked with G,
is the square of halfe the line, that is, of A.C, And the other
two little squares marked with F. and H, be both of one bignes,
by reason that I did diuide C.B. into two equall partes, so that
you amy take the square F, for the square of D.B, and the square
H, for the square of C.D. Now I thinke you doubt not, but that
the square E. and the square F, ar double so much as the square
G. and the square H, which thing the easyer is to be
vnderstande, bicause that the greate square hath in his side
iij. quarters of the firste line, which multiplied by itselfe
maketh nyne quarters, and the square F. containeth but one
quarter, so that bothe doo make tenne quarters.

  Then G. contayneth iiij. quarters, seynge his side containeth
  twoo, and H. containeth but one quarter, whiche both make
  but fiue quarters, and that is but halfe of tenne.
  Whereby you may easylye coniecture,
  that the meanynge of the theoreme
  is verified in the
  figures of this
  example.


_The xliiij. Theoreme._

  If a right line be deuided into ij. partes equally, and an
  other portion of a righte lyne annexed to that firste line,
  the square of this whole line so compounded, and the square
  of the portion that is annexed, ar doule as much as the
  square of the halfe of the firste line, and the square of
  the other halfe ioyned in one with the annexed portion, as
  one whole line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The line is A.B, and is diuided firste into twoo equal partes in
C, and thẽ is there annexed to it an other portion whiche is
B.D. Now saith the Theoreme, that the square of A.D, and the
square of B.D, ar double to the square of A.C, and to the square
of C.D. The line A.B. cõtaining four partes, then must needes
his halfe containe ij. partes of such partes I suppose B.D.
(which is the ãnexed line) to containe thre, so shal the hole
line cõprehend vij. parts, and his square xlix. parts, where
vnto if you ad y^e square of the annexed lyne, whiche maketh
nyne, than those bothe doo yelde, lviij. whyche must be double
to the square of the halfe lyne with the annexed portion. The
halfe lyne by it selfe conteyneth but .ij. partes, and therfore
his square dooth make foure. The halfe lyne with the annexed
portion conteyneth fiue, and the square of it is .xxv, now put
foure to .xxv, and it maketh iust .xxix, the euen halfe of fifty
and eight, wherby appereth the truthe of the theoreme.


_The .xlv. theoreme._

  In all triangles that haue a blunt angle, the square of the
  side that lieth against the blunt angle, is greater than the
  two squares of the other twoo sydes, by twise as muche as is
  comprehended of the one of those .ij. sides (inclosyng the
  blunt corner) and the portion of the same line, beyng drawen
  foorth in lengthe, which lieth betwene the said blunt corner
  and a perpendicular line lightyng on it, and drawen from one
  of the sharpe angles of the foresayd triangle.

_Example._

For the declaration of this theoreme and the next also, whose
vse are wonderfull in the practise of Geometrie, and in
measuryng especially, it shall be nedefull to declare that euery
triangle that hath no ryght angle as those whyche are called (as
in the boke of practise is declared) sharp cornered triangles,
and blunt cornered triangles, yet may they be brought to haue a
ryght angle, eyther by partyng them into two lesser triangles,
or els by addyng an other triangle vnto them, whiche may be a
great helpe for the ayde of measuryng, as more largely shall be
sette foorthe in the boke of measuryng. But for this present
place, this forme wyll I vse, (whiche Theon also vseth) to adde
one triangle vnto an other, to bryng the blunt cornered triangle
into a ryght angled triangle, whereby the proportion of the
squares of the sides in suche a blunt cornered triangle may the
better bee knowen.

  [Illustration]

Fyrst therfore I sette foorth the triangle A.B.C, whose corner
by C. is a blunt corner as you maye well iudge, than to make an
other triangle of yt with a ryght angle, I must drawe forth the
side B.C. vnto D, and frõ the sharp corner by A. I brynge a
plumbe lyne or perpẽdicular on D. And so is there nowe a newe
triangle A.B.D. whose angle by D. is a right angle. Nowe
accordyng to the meanyng of the Theoreme, I saie, that in the
first triangle A.B.C, because it hath a blunt corner at C, the
square of the line A.B. whiche lieth against the said blunte
corner, is more then the square of the line A.C, and also of the
lyne B.C, (whiche inclose the blunte corner) by as muche as will
amount twise of the line B.C, and that portion D.C. whiche lieth
betwene the blunt angle by C, and the perpendicular line A.D.

The square of the line A.B, is the great square marked with E.
The square of A.C, is the meane square marked with F. The square
of B.C, is the least square marked with G. And the long square
marked with K, is sette in steede of two squares made of B.C,
and C.D. For as the shorter side is the iuste lengthe of C.D, so
the other longer side is iust twise so longe as B.C, Wherfore I
saie now accordyng to the Theoreme, that the greatte square E,
is more then the other two squares F. and G, by the quantitee of
the longe square K, wherof I reserue the profe to a more
conuenient place, where I will also teache the reason howe to
fynde the lengthe of all suche perpendicular lynes, and also of
the line that is drawen betweene the blunte angle and the
perpendicular line, with sundrie other very pleasant
conclusions.


_The .xlvi. Theoreme._

  In sharpe cornered triangles, the square of anie side that
  lieth against a sharpe corner, is lesser then the two
  squares of the other two sides, by as muche as is comprised
  twise in the long square of that side, on whiche the
  perpendicular line falleth, and the portion of that same
  line, liyng betweene the perpendicular, and the foresaid
  sharpe corner.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Fyrst I sette foorth the triangle A.B.C, and in yt I draw a
plũbe line from the angle C. vnto the line A.B, and it lighteth
in D. Nowe by the theoreme the square of B.C. is not so muche as
the square of the other two sydes, that of B.A. and of A.C. by
as muche as is twise conteyned in the lõg square made of A.B,
and A.D, A.B. beyng the line or syde on which the perpendicular
line falleth, and A.D. beeyng that portion of the same line
whiche doth lye betwene the perpendicular line, and the sayd
sharpe angle limitted, whiche angle is by A.

For declaration of the figures, the square marked with E. is the
square of B.C, whiche is the syde that lieth agaynst the sharpe
angle, the square marked with G. is the square of A.B, and the
square marked with F. is the square of A.C, and the two longe
squares marked with H.K, are made of the hole line A.B, and one
of his portions A.D. And truthe it is that the square E. is
lesser than the other two squares C. and F. by the quantitee of
those two long squares H. and K. Wherby you may consyder agayn,
an other proportion of equalitee, that is to saye, that the
square E. with the twoo longsquares H.K, are iuste equall to the
other twoo squares C. and F. And so maye you make, as it were an
other theoreme. _That in al sharpe cornered triangles, where a
perpendicular line is drawen frome one angle to the side that
lyeth againste it, the square of anye one side, with the ij.
longesquares made at that hole line, whereon the perpendicular
line doth lighte, and of that portion of it, which ioyneth to
that side whose square is all ready taken, those thre figures,
I say, are equall to the ij. squares, of the other ij. sides of
the triangle._ In whiche you muste vnderstand, that the side on
which the perpendiculare falleth, is thrise vsed, yet is his
square but ones mencioned, for twise he is taken for one side of
the two long squares. And as I haue thus made as it were an
other theoreme out of this fourty and sixe theoreme, so mighte I
out of it, and the other that goeth nexte before, make as manny
as woulde suffice for a whole booke, so that when they shall bee
applyed to practise, and consequently to expresse their
benefite, no manne that hathe not well wayde their wonderfull
commoditee, would credite the possibilitie of their wonderfull
vse, and large ayde in knowledge. But all this wyll I remitte to
a place conuenient.


_The xlvij. Theoreme._

  If ij. points be marked in the circumferẽce of a circle, and
  a right line drawen frome the one to the other, that line
  must needes fal within the circle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, the ij. poinctes are A.B, the righte line
that is drawenne frome the one to the other, is the line A.B,
which as you see, must needes lyghte within the circle. So if
you putte the pointes to be A.D, or D.C, or A.C, other B.C, or
B.D, in any of these cases you see, that the line that is drawen
from the one pricke to the other dothe euermore run within the
edge of the circle, els canne it be no right line. How be it,
that a croked line, especially being more croked then the
portion of the circumference, maye bee drawen from pointe to
pointe withoute the circle. But the theoreme speaketh only of
right lines, and not of croked lines.


_The xlviij. Theoreme._

  If a righte line passinge by the centre of a circle, doo
  crosse an other right line within the same circle, passinge
  beside the centre, if he deuide the saide line into twoo
  equal partes, then doo they make all their angles righte.
  And contrarie waies, if they make all their angles righte,
  then doth the longer line cutte the shorter in twoo partes.


_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, the line that passeth by the centre, is
A.E.C, the line that goeth beside the centre is D.B. Nowe saye
I, that the line A.E.C, dothe cutte that other line D.B. into
twoo iuste partes, and therefore all their four angles ar righte
angles. And contrarye wayes, bicause all their angles are righte
angles, therfore it muste be true, that the greater cutteth the
lesser into two equal partes, accordinge as the Theoreme would.


_The xlix. Theoreme._

  If twoo right lines drawen in a circle doo crosse one an
  other, and doo not passe by the centre, euery of them dothe
  not deuide the other into equall partions.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, and the centre is E, the one line A.C,
and the other is B.D, which two lines crosse one an other, but
yet they go not by the centre, wherefore accordinge to the
woordes of the theoreme, eche of theim doth cuytte the other
into equall portions. For as you may easily iudge, A.C. hath one
portiõ lõger and an other shorter, and so like wise B.D.
Howbeit, it is not so to be vnderstãd, but one of them may be
deuided into ij. euẽ parts, but bothe to bee cutte equally in
the middle, is not possible, onles both passe through the cẽtre,
therfore much rather whẽ bothe go beside the centre, it can not
be that eche of theym shoulde be iustely parted into ij. euen
partes.


_The L. Theoreme._

  If two circles crosse and cut one an other, then haue not
  they both one centre.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

This theoreme seemeth of it selfe so manifest, that it neadeth
nother demonstration nother declaraciõ. Yet for the plaine
vnderstanding of it, I haue sette forthe a figure here, where
ij. circles be drawẽ, so that one of them doth crosse the other
(as you see) in the pointes B. and G, and their centres appear
at the firste sighte to bee diuers. For the centre of the one is
F, and the centre of the other is E, which diffre as farre
asondre as the edges of the circles, where they bee most
distaunte in sonder.


_The Li. Theoreme._

  If two circles be so drawen, that one of them do touche the
  other, then haue they not one centre.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

There are two circles made, as you see, the one is A.B.C, and
hath his centre by G, the other is B.D.E, and his centre is by
F, so that it is easy enough to perceaue that their centres doe
dyffer as muche a sonder, as the halfe diameter of the greater
circle is lõger then the half diameter of the lesser circle. And
so must it needes be thought and said of all other circles in
lyke kinde.


_The .lij. theoreme._

  If a certaine pointe be assigned in the diameter of a
  circle, distant from the centre of the said circle, and from
  that pointe diuerse lynes drawen to the edge and
  circumference of the same circle, the longest line is that
  whiche passeth by the centre, and the shortest is the
  residew of the same line. And of al the other lines that is
  euer the greatest, that is nighest to the line, which
  passeth by the centre. And cõtrary waies, that is the
  shortest, that is farthest from it. And amongest thẽ all
  there can be but onely .ij. equall together, and they must
  nedes be so placed, that the shortest line shall be in the
  iust middle betwixte them.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D.E.H, and his centre is F, the diameter is
A.E, in whiche diameter I haue taken a certain point distaunt
from the centre, and that pointe is G, from which I haue drawen
.iiij. lines to the circumference, beside the two partes of the
diameter, whiche maketh vp vi. lynes in all. Nowe for the
diuersitee in quantitie of these lynes, I saie accordyng to the
Theoreme, that the line whiche goeth by the centre is the
longest line, that is to saie, A.G, and the residewe of the same
diameter beeyng G.E, is the shortest lyne. And of all the other
that lyne is longest, that is neerest vnto that parte of the
diameter whiche gooeth by the centre, and that is shortest, that
is farthest distant from it, wherefore I saie, that G.B, is
longer then G.C, and therfore muche more longer then G.D, sith
G.C, also is longer then G.D, and by this maie you soone
perceiue, that it is not possible to drawe .ij. lynes on any one
side of the diameter, whiche might be equall in lengthe
together, but on the one side of the diameter maie you easylie
make one lyne equall to an other, on the other side of the same
diameter, as you see in this example G.H, to bee equall to G.D,
betweene whiche the lyne G.E, (as the shortest in all the
circle) doothe stande euen distaunte from eche of them, and it
is the precise knoweledge of their equalitee, if they be equally
distaunt from one halfe of the diameter. Where as contrary waies
if the one be neerer to any one halfe of the diameter then the
other is, it is not possible that they two may be equall in
lengthe, namely if they dooe ende bothe in the circumference of
the circle, and be bothe drawen from one poynte in the diameter,
so that the saide poynte be (as the Theoreme doeth suppose)
somewhat distaunt from the centre of the said circle. For if
they be drawen from the centre, then must they of necessitee be
all equall, howe many so euer they bee, as the definition of a
circle dooeth importe, withoute any regarde how neere so euer
they be to the diameter, or how distante from it. And here is to
be noted, that in this Theoreme, by neerenesse and distaunce is
vnderstand the nereness and distaunce of the extreeme partes of
those lynes where they touche the circumference. For at the
other end they do all meete and touche.


_The .liij. Theoreme._

  If a pointe bee marked without a circle, and from it diuerse
  lines drawen crosse the circle, to the circumference on the
  other side, so that one of them passe by the centre, then
  that line whiche passeth by the centre shall be the loongest
  of them all that crosse the circle. And of the other lines
  those are longest, that be nexte vnto it that passeth by the
  centre. And those ar shortest, that be farthest distant from
  it. But among those partes of those lines, whiche ende in
  the outewarde circumference, that is most shortest, whiche
  is parte of the line that passeth by the centre, and
  amongeste the othere eche, of thẽ, the nerer they are vnto
  it, the shorter they are, and the farther from it, the
  longer they be. And amongest them all there can not be more
  then .ij. of any one lẽgth, and they two muste be on the two
  contrarie sides of the shortest line.


_Example._

  [Illustration]

Take the circle to be A.B.C, and the point assigned without it
to be D. Now say I, that if there be drawen sundrie lines from
D, and crosse the circle, endyng in the circumference on the
cõtrary side, as here you see, D.A, D.E, D.F, and D.B, then of
all these lines the longest must needes be D.A, which goeth by
the centre of the circle, and the nexte vnto it, that is D.E, is
the longest amongest the rest. And contrarie waies, D.B, is the
shorteste, because it is farthest distaunt from D.A. And so maie
you iudge of D.F, because it is nerer vnto D.A, then is D.B,
therefore is it longer then D.B. And likewaies because it is
farther of from D.A, then is D.E, therfore is it shorter then
D.E. Now for those partes of the lines whiche bee withoute the
circle (as you see) D.C, is the shortest. because it is the
parte of that line which passeth by the centre, And D.K, is next
to it in distance, and therefore also in shortnes, so D.G, is
farthest from it in distance, and therfore is the longest of
them. Now D.H, beyng nerer then D.G, is also shorter then it,
and beynge farther of, then D.K, is longer then it. So that for
this parte of the theoreme (as I think) you do plainly perceaue
the truthe thereof, so the residue hathe no difficulte. For
seing that the nearer any line is to D.C, (which ioyneth with
the diameter) the shorter it is and the farther of from it, the
longer it is. And seyng two lynes can not be of like distaunce
beinge bothe on one side, therefore if they shal be of one
lengthe, and consequently of one distaunce, they must needes bee
on contrary sides of the saide line D.C. And so appeareth the
meaning of the whole Theoreme.

And of this Theoreme dothe there folowe an other lyke. whiche
you maye calle other a theoreme by it selfe, or else a Corollary
vnto this laste theoreme, I passe not so muche for the name. But
his sentence is this: _when so euer any lynes be drawen frome
any pointe, withoute a circle, whether they crosse the circle,
or eande in the utter edge of his circumference, those two lines
that bee equally distaunt from the least line are equal
togither, and contrary waies, if they be equall togither, they
ar also equally distant from that least line._

For the declaracion of this proposition, it shall not need to
vse any other example, then that which is brought for the
explication of this laste theoreme, by whiche you may without
any teachinge easyly perceaue both the meanyng and also the
truth of this proposition.


_The Liiij. Theoreme._

  If a point be set forthe in a circle, and frõ that pointe
  vnto the circumference many lines drawen, of which more then
  two are equal togither, then is that point the centre of
  that circle.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C, and within it I haue sette fourth for an
example three prickes, which are D.E. and F, from euery one of
them I haue drawẽ (at the leaste) iiij. lines vnto the
circumference of the circle but frome D, I haue drawen more, yet
maye it appear readily vnto your eye, that of all the lines
whiche be drawen from E. and F, vnto the circumference, there
are but twoo equall, and more can not bee, for G.E. nor E.H.
hath none other equal to theim, nor canne not haue any beinge
drawen from the same point E. No more can L.F, or F.K, haue anye
line equall to either of theim, beinge drawen from the same
pointe F. And yet from either of those two poinctes are there
drawen twoo lines equall togither, as A.E, is equall to E.B, and
B.F, is equall to F.C, but there can no third line be drawen
equall to either of these two couples, and that is by reason
that they be drawen from a pointe distaunte from the centre of
the circle. But from D, althoughe there be seuen lines drawen,
to the circumference, yet all bee equall, bicause it is the
centre of the circle. And therefore if you drawe neuer so mannye
more from it vnto the circumference, all shall be equal, so that
this is the priuilege (as it were of the centre) and therfore no
other point can haue aboue two equal lines drawen from it vnto
the circumference. And from all pointes you maye drawe ij.
equall lines to the circumference of the circle, whether that
pointe be within the circle or without it.


_The lv. Theoreme._

  No circle canne cut an other circle in more pointes then
  two.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The first circle is A.B.F.E, the second circle is B.C.D.E, and
they crosse one an other in B. and in E, and in no more pointes.
Nother is it possible that they should, but other figures ther
be, which maye cutte a circle in foure partes, as you se in this
exãple. Where I haue set forthe one tunne forme, and one eye
forme, and eche of them cutteth euery of their two circles into
foure partes. But as they be irregulare formes, that is to saye,
suche formes as haue no precise measure nother proportion in
their draughte, so can there scarcely be made any certaine
theorem of them. But circles are regulare formes, that is to
say, such formes as haue in their protracture a iuste and
certaine proportion, so that certain and determinate truths may
be affirmed of them, sith they ar vniforme and vnchaungable.


_The lvi. Theoreme._

  If two circles be so drawen, that the one be within the
  other, and that they touche one an other: If a line bee
  drawen by bothe their centres, and so forthe in lengthe,
  that line shall runne to that pointe, where the circles do
  touche.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The one circle, which is the greattest and vttermost is A.B.C,
the other circle that is y^e lesser, and is drawen within the
firste, is A.D.E. The cẽtre of the greater circle is F, and the
centre of the lesser circle is G, the pointe where they touche
is A. And now you may see the truthe of the theoreme so
plainely, that it needeth no farther declaracion. For you maye
see, that drawinge a line from F. to G, and so forth in lengthe,
vntill it come to the circumference, it wyll lighte in the very
poincte A, where the circles touche one an other.


_The Lvij. Theoreme._

  If two circles bee drawen so one withoute an other, that
  their edges doo touche and a right line bee drawnenne frome
  the centre of the one to the centre of the other, that line
  shall passe by the place of their touching.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The firste circle is A.B.E, and his centre is K, The secõd
circle is D.B.C, and his cẽtre is H, the point wher they do
touch is B. Nowe doo you se that the line K.H, whiche is drawen
from K, that is centre of the firste circle, vnto H, beyng
centre of the second circle, doth passe (as it must nedes by the
pointe B,) whiche is the verye poynte wher they do to touche
together.


_The .lviij. theoreme._

  One circle can not touche an other in more pointes then one,
  whether they touche within or without.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

For the declaration of this Theoreme, I haue drawen iiij.
circles, the first is A.B.C, and his centre H. the second is
A.D.G, and his centre F. the third is L.M, and his centre K. the
.iiij. is D.G.L.M, and his centre E. Nowe as you perceiue the
second circle A.D.G, toucheth the first in the inner side, in so
much as it is drawen within the other, and yet it toucheth him
but in one point, that is to say in A, so lykewaies the third
circle L.M, is drawen without the firste circle and toucheth
hym, as you maie see, but in one place. And now as for the
.iiij. circle, it is drawen to declare the diuersitie betwene
touchyng and cuttyng, or crossyng. For one circle maie crosse
and cutte a great many other circles, yet can be not cutte any
one in more places then two, as the fiue and fiftie Theoreme
affirmeth.


_The .lix. Theoreme._

  In euerie circle those lines are to be counted equall,
  whiche are in lyke distaunce from the centre, And contrarie
  waies they are in lyke distance from the centre, whiche be
  equall.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

In this figure you see firste the circle drawen, whiche is
A.B.C.D, and his centre is E. In this circle also there are
drawen two lines equally distaunt from the centre, for the line
A.B, and the line D.C, are iuste of one distaunce from the
centre, whiche is E, and therfore are they of one length. Again
thei are of one lengthe (as shall be proued in the boke of
profes) and therefore their distaunce from the centre is all
one.


_The lx. Theoreme._

  In euerie circle the longest line is the diameter, and of
  all the other lines, thei are still longest that be nexte
  vnto the centre, and they be the shortest, that be farthest
  distaunt from it.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

In this circle A.B.C.D, I haue drawen first the diameter, whiche
is A.D, whiche passeth (as it must) by the centre E, Then haue I
drawen ij. other lines as M.N, whiche is neerer the centre, and
F.G, that is farther from the centre. The fourth line also on
the other side of the diameter, that is B.C, is neerer to the
centre then the line F.G, for it is of lyke distance as is the
lyne M.N. Nowe saie I, that A.D, beyng the diameter, is the
longest of all those lynes, and also of any other that maie be
drawen within that circle, And the other line M.N, is longer
then F.G. Also the line F.G, is shorter then the line B.C, for
because it is farther from the centre then is the lyne B.C. And
thus maie you iudge of al lines drawen in any circle, how to
know the proportion of their length, by the proportion of their
distance, and contrary waies, howe to discerne the proportion of
their distance by their lengthes, if you knowe the proportion of
their length. And to speake of it by the waie, it is a
maruaylouse thyng to consider, that a man maie knowe an exacte
proportion betwene two thynges, and yet can not name nor attayne
the precise quantitee of those two thynges, As for exaumple, If
two squares be sette foorthe, whereof the one containeth in it
fiue square feete, and the other contayneth fiue and fortie
foote, of like square feete, I am not able to tell, no nor yet
anye manne liuyng, what is the precyse measure of the sides of
any of those .ij. squares, and yet I can proue by vnfallible
reason, that their sides be in a triple proportion, that is to
saie, that the side of the greater square (whiche containeth
.xlv. foote) is three tymes so long iuste as the side of the
lesser square, that includeth but fiue foote. But this seemeth
to be spoken out of ceason in this place, therfore I will omitte
it now, reseruyng the exacter declaration therof to a more
conuenient place and time, and will procede with the residew of
the Theoremes appointed for this boke.


_The .lxi. Theoreme._

  If a right line be drawen at any end of a diameter in
  perpendicular forme, and do make a right angle with the
  diameter, that right line shall light without the circle,
  and yet so iointly knitte to it, that it is not possible to
  draw any other right line betwene that saide line and the
  circumferẽce of the circle. And the angle that is made in
  the semicircle is greater then any sharpe angle that may be
  made of right lines, but the other angle without, is lesser
  then any that can be made of right lines.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

In this circle A.B.C, the diameter is A.C, the perpendicular
line, which maketh a right angle with the diameter, is C.A,
whiche line falleth without the circle, and yet ioyneth so
exactly vnto it, that it is not possible to draw an other right
line betwene the circumference of the circle and it, whiche
thyng is so plainly seene of the eye, that it needeth no farther
declaracion. For euery man wil easily consent, that betwene the
croked line A.F, (whiche is a parte of the circumferẽce of the
circle) and A.E (which is the said perpẽdicular line) there can
none other line bee drawen in that place where they make the
angle. Nowe for the residue of the theoreme. The angle D.A.B,
which is made in the semicircle, is greater then anye sharpe
angle that may bee made of ryghte lines. and yet is it a sharpe
angle also, in as much as it is lesser then a right angle, which
is the angle E.A.D, and the residue of that right angle, which
lieth without the circle, that is to saye, E.A.B, is lesser then
any sharpe angle that can be made of right lines also. For as it
was before rehersed, there canne no right line be drawen to the
angle, betwene the circumference and the right line E.A. Then
must it needes folow, that there can be made no lesser angle of
righte lines. And againe, if ther canne be no lesser then the
one, then doth it sone appear, that there canne be no greater
then the other, for they twoo doo make the whole right angle, so
that if anye corner coulde be made greater then the one parte,
then shoulde the residue bee lesser then the other parte, so
that other bothe partes muste be false, or els bothe graunted to
be true.


_The lxij. Theoreme._

  If a right line doo touche a circle, and an other right line
  drawen frome the centre of the circle to the pointe where
  they touche, that line whiche is drawenne frome the centre,
  shall be a perpendicular line to the touch line.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C, and his centre is F. The touche line is
D.E, and the point wher they touch is C. Now by reason that a
right line is drawen frome the centre F. vnto C, which is the
point of the touche, therefore saith the theoreme, that the
sayde line F.C, muste needes bee a perpendicular line vnto the
touche line D.E.


_The lxiij. Theoreme._

  If a righte line doo touche a circle, and an other right
  line be drawen from the pointe of their touchinge, so that
  it doo make righte corners with the touche line, then shal
  the centre of the circle bee in that same line, so drawen.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C, and the centre of it is G. The touche line
is D.C.E, and the pointe where it toucheth, is C. Nowe it
appeareth manifest, that if a righte line be drawen from the
pointe where the touch line doth ioine with the circle, and that
the said lyne doo make righte corners with the touche line, then
muste it needes go by the centre of the circle, and then
consequently it must haue the sayde cẽtre in him. For if the
saide line shoulde go beside the centre, as F.C. doth, then
dothe it not make righte angles with the touche line, which in
the theoreme is supposed.


_The lxiiij. Theoreme._

  If an angle be made on the centre of a circle, and an other
  angle made on the circumference of the same circle, and
  their grounde line be one common portion of the
  circumference, then is the angle on the centre twise so
  great as the other angle on the circũferẽce.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, and his centre is E: the angle on the
centre is C.E.D, and the angle on the circumference is C.A.D t
their commen ground line, is C.F.D. Now say I that the angle
C.E.D, whiche is on the centre, is twise so greate as the angle
C.A.D, which is on the circumference.


_The lxv. Theoreme._

  Those angles whiche be made in one cantle of a circle, must
  needes be equal togither.

_Example._

Before I declare this theoreme by example, it shall bee
needefull to declare, what is it to be vnderstande by the wordes
in this theoreme. For the sentence canne not be knowen, onles
the uery meaning of the wordes be firste vnderstand. Therefore
when it speaketh of angles made in one cantle of a circle, it is
this to be vnderstand, that the angle muste touch the
circumference: and the lines that doo inclose that angle, muste
be drawen to the extremities of that line, which maketh the
cantle of the circle. So that if any angle do not touch the
circumference, or if the lines that inclose that angle, doo not
ende in the extremities of the corde line, but ende other in
some other part of the said corde, or in the circumference, or
that any one of them do so eande, then is not that angle
accompted to be drawen in the said cantle of the circle. And
this promised, nowe will I cumme to the meaninge of the
theoreme. I sette forthe a circle whiche is A.B.C.D, and his
centre E, in this circle I drawe a line D.C, whereby there ar
made two cantels, a more and a lesser. The lesser is D.E.C, and
the geater is D.A.B.C. In this greater cantle I drawe two
angles, the firste is D.A.C, and the second is D.B.C which two
angles by reason they are made bothe in one cantle of a circle
(that is the cantle D.A.B.C) therefore are they both equall. Now
doth there appere an other triangle, whose angle lighteth on the
centre of the circle, and that triangle is D.E.C, whose angle is
double to the other angles, as is declared in the lxiiij.
Theoreme, whiche maie stande well enough with this Theoreme, for
it is not made in this cantle of the circle, as the other are,
by reason that his angle doth not light in the circumference of
the circle, but on the centre of it.

  [Illustration]


_The .lxvi. theoreme._

  Euerie figure of foure sides, drawen in a circle, hath his
  two contrarie angles equall vnto two right angles.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, and the figure of foure sides in it, is
made of the sides B.C, and C.D, and D.A, and A.B. Now if you
take any two angles that be contrary, as the angle by A, and the
angle by C, I saie that those .ij. be equall to .ij. right
angles. Also if you take the angle by B, and the angle by D,
whiche two are also contray, those two angles are like waies
equall to two right angles. But if any man will take the angle
by A, with the angle by B, or D, they can not be accompted
contrary, no more is not the angle by C. estemed contray to the
angle by B, or yet to the angle by D, for they onely be
accompted _contrary angles_, whiche haue no one line common to
them bothe. Suche is the angle by A, in respect of the angle by
C, for there both lynes be distinct, where as the angle by A,
and the angle by D, haue one common line A.D, and therfore can
not be accompted contrary angles, So the angle by D, and the
angle by C, haue D.C, as a common line, and therefore be not
contrary angles. And this maie you iudge of the residewe, by
like reason.


_The lxvij. Theoreme._

  Vpon one right lyne there can not be made two cantles of
  circles, like and vnequall, and drawen towarde one parte.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Cantles of circles be then called like, when the angles that are
made in them be equall. But now for the Theoreme, let the right
line be A.E.C, on whiche I draw a cantle of a circle, whiche is
A.B.C. Now saieth the Theoreme, that it is not possible to draw
an other cantle of a circle, whiche shall be vnequall vnto this
first cantle, that is to say, other greatter or lesser then it,
and yet be lyke it also, that is to say, that the angle in the
one shall be equall to the angle in the other. For as in this
example you see a lesser cantle drawen also, that is A.D.C, so
if an angle were made in it, that angle would be greatter then
the angle made in the cantle A.B.C, and therfore can not they be
called lyke cantels, but and if any other cantle were made
greater then the first, then would the angle in it be lesser
then that in the firste, and so nother a lesser nother a greater
cantle can be made vpon one line with an other, but it will be
vnlike to it also.


_The .lxviij. Theoreme._

  Lyke cantelles of circles made on equal righte lynes, are
  equall together.

_Example._

What is ment by like cantles you haue heard before. and it is
easie to vnderstand, that suche figures a called equall, that be
of one bygnesse, so that the one is nother greater nother lesser
then the other. And in this kinde of comparison, they must so
agree, that if the one be layed on the other, they shall exactly
agree in all their boundes, so that nother shall excede other.

  [Illustration]

Nowe for the example of the Theoreme, I haue set forthe diuers
varieties of cantles of circles, amongest which the first and
seconde are made vpõ equall lines, and ar also both equall and
like. The third couple ar ioyned in one, and be nother equall,
nother like, but expressyng an absurde deformitee, whiche would
folowe if this Theoreme wer not true. And so in the fourth
couple you maie see, that because they are not equall cantles,
therfore can not they be like cantles, for necessarily it goeth
together, that all cantles of circles made vpon equall right
lines, if they be like they must be equall also.


_The lxix. Theoreme._

  In equall circles, suche angles as be equall are made vpon
  equall arch lines of the circumference, whether the angle
  light on the circumference, or on the centre.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

Firste I haue sette for an exaumple twoo equall circles, that is
A.B.C.D, whose centre is K, and the second circle E.F.G.H, and
his centre L, and in eche of thẽ is there made two angles, one
on the circumference, and the other on the centre of eche
circle, and they be all made on two equall arche lines, that is
B.C.D. the one, and F.G.H. the other. Now saieth the Theoreme,
that if the angle B.A.D, be equall to the angle F.E.H, then are
they made in equall circles, and on equall arch lines of their
circumference. Also if the angle B.K.D, be equal to the angle
F.L.H, then be they made on the centres of equall circles, and
on equall arche lines, so that you muste compare those angles
together, whiche are made both on the centres, or both on the
circumference, and maie not conferre those angles, wherof one is
drawen on the circumference, and the other on the centre. For
euermore the angle on the centre in suche sorte shall be double
to the angle on the circumference, as is declared in the three
score and foure Theoreme.


_The .lxx. Theoreme._

  In equall circles, those angles whiche bee made on equall
  arche lynes, are euer equall together, whether they be made
  on the centre, or on the circumference.

_Example._

This Theoreme doth but conuert the sentence of the last Theoreme
before, and therfore is to be vnderstande by the same examples,
for as that saith, that equall angles occupie equall archelynes,
so this saith, that equal arche lines causeth equal angles,
consideringe all other circumstances, as was taughte in the
laste theoreme before, so that this theoreme dooeth affirming
speake of the equalitie of those angles, of which the laste
theoreme spake conditionally. And where the laste theoreme spake
affirmatiuely of the arche lines, this theoreme speaketh
conditionally of them, as thus: If the arche line B.C.D. be
equall to the other arche line F.G.H, then is that angle B.A.D.
equall to the other angle F.E.H. Or els thus may you declare it
causally: Bicause the arche line B.C.D, is equal to the other
arche line F.G.H, therefore is the angle B.K.D. equall to the
angle F.L.H, consideringe that they are made on the centres of
equall circles. And so of the other angles, bicause those two
arche lines aforesaid ar equal, therfore the angle D.A.B, is
equall to the angle F.E.H, for as muche as they are made on
those equall arche lines, and also on the circumference of
equall circles. And thus these theoremes doo one declare an
other, and one verifie the other.


_The lxxi. Theoreme._

  In equal circles, equall right lines beinge drawen, doo
  cutte awaye equalle arche lines frome their circumferences,
  so that the greater arche line of the one is equall to the
  greater arche line of the other, and the lesser to the
  lesser.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle A.B.C.D, is made equall to the circle E.F.G.H, and
the right line B.D. is equal to the righte line F.H, wherfore it
foloweth, that the ij. arche lines of the circle A.B.D, whiche
are cut from his circumference by the right line B.D, are equall
to two other arche lines of the circle E.F.H, being cutte frome
his circumference, by the right line F.H. that is to saye, that
the arche line B.A.D, beinge the greater arch line of the firste
circle, is equall to the arche line F.E.H, beynge the greater
arche line of the other circle. And so in like manner the lesser
arche line of the firste circle, beynge B.C.D, is equal to the
lesser arche line of the seconde circle, that is F.G.H.


_The lxxij. Theoreme._

  In equall circles, vnder equall arche lines the right lines
  that bee drawen are equall togither.

_Example._

This Theoreme is none other, but the conuersion of the laste
Theoreme beefore, and therefore needeth none other example. For
as that did declare the equalitie of the arche lines, by the
equalitie of the righte lines, so dothe this Theoreme declare
the equalnes of the right lines to ensue of the equalnes of the
arche lines, and therefore declareth that right lyne B.D, to be
equal to the other right line F.H, bicause they both are drawen
vnder equall arche lines, that is to saye, the one vnder B.A.D,
and thother vnder F.E.H, and those two arch lines are estimed
equall by the theoreme laste before, and shal be proued in the
booke of proofes.


_The lxxiij. Theoreme._

  In euery circle, the angle that is made in the halfe circle,
  is a iuste righte angle, and the angle that is made in a
  cantle greater then the halfe circle, is lesser thanne a
  righte angle, but that angle that is made in a cantle,
  lesser then the halfe circle, is greatter then a right
  angle. And moreouer the angle of the greater cantle is
  greater then a righte angle and the angle of the lesser
  cantle is lesser then a right angle.

_Example._

In this proposition, it shal be meete to note, that there is a
greate diuersite betwene an angle of a cantle, and an angle made
in a cantle, and also betwene the angle of a semicircle, and y^e
angle made in a semicircle. Also it is meet to note y^t al
angles that be made in y^e part of a circle, ar made other in a
semicircle, (which is the iuste half circle) or els in a cantle
of the circle, which cantle is other greater or lesser then the
semicircle is, as in this figure annexed you maye perceaue
euerye one of the thinges seuerallye.

  [Illustration]

Firste the circle is, as you see, A.B.C.D, and his centre E, his
diameter is A.D, Then is ther a line drawẽ from A. to B, and so
forth vnto F, which is without the circle: and an other line
also frome B. to D, whiche maketh two cantles of the whole
circle. The greater cantle is D.A.B, and the lesser cantle is
B.C.D, In whiche lesser cantle also there are two lines that
make an angle, the one line is B.C, and the other line is C.D.
Now to showe the difference of an angle in a cantle, and an
angle of a cantle, first for an example I take the greter cãtle
B.A.D, in which is but one angle made, and that is the angle by
A, which is made of a line A.B, and the line A.D, And this angle
is therfore called an angle in a cantle. But now the same cantle
hathe two other angles, which be called the angles of that
cantle, so the twoo angles made of the righte line D.B, and the
arche line D.A.B, are the twoo angles of this cantle, whereof
the one is by D, and the other is by B. Wher you must remẽbre,
that the ãgle by D. is made of the right line B.D, and the arche
line D.A. And this angle is diuided by an other right line
A.E.D, which in this case must be omitted as no line. Also the
ãgle by B. is made of the right line D.B, and of the arch line
.B.A, & although it be deuided with ij. other right lines, of
w^{ch} the one is the right line B.A, & thother the right line
B.E, yet in this case they ar not to be cõsidered. And by this
may you perceaue also which be the angles of the lesser cantle,
the first of thẽ is made of y^e right line B.D, & of y^e arch
line B.C, the secõd is made of the right line .D.B, & of the
arch line D.C. Then ar ther ij. other lines, w^{ch} deuide those
ij. corners, y^t is the line B.C, & the line C.D, w^{ch} ij.
lines do meet in the poynte C, and there make an angle, whiche
is called an angle made in that lesser cantle, but yet is not
any angle of that cantle. And so haue you heard the difference
betweene an angle in a cantle, and an angle of a cantle. And in
lyke sorte shall you iudg of the ãgle made in a semicircle,
whiche is distinct frõ the angles of the semicircle. For in this
figure, the angles of the semicircle are those angles which be
by A. and D, and be made of the right line A.D, beeyng the
diameter, and of the halfe circumference of the circle, but by
the angle made in the semicircle is that angle by B, whiche is
made of the righte line A.B, and that other right line B.D,
whiche as they mete in the circumference, and make an angle, so
they ende with their other extremities at the endes of the
diameter. These thynges premised, now saie I touchyng the
Theoreme, that euerye angle that is made in a semicircle, is a
right angle, and if it be made in any cãtle of a circle, thẽ
must it neds be other a blũt ãgle, or els a sharpe angle, and in
no wise a righte angle. For if the cantle wherein the angle is
made, be greater then the halfe circle, then is that angle a
sharpe angle. And generally the greater the cãtle is, the lesser
is the angle comprised in that cantle: and contrary waies, the
lesser any cantle is, the greater is the angle that is made in
it. Wherfore it must nedes folowe, that the angle made in a
cantle lesse then a semicircle, must nedes be greater then a
right angle. So the angle by B, beyng made at the right line
A.B, and the righte line B.D, is a iuste righte angle, because
it is made in a semicircle. But the angle made by A, which is
made of the right line A.B, and of the right line A.D, is lesser
then a righte angle, and is named a sharpe angle, for as muche
as it is made in a cantle of a circle, greater then a
semicircle. And contrary waies, the angle by C, beyng made of
the righte line B.C, and of the right line C.D, is greater then
a right angle, and is named a blunte angle, because it is made
in a cantle of a circle, lesser then a semicircle. But now
touchyng the other angles of the cantles, I saie accordyng to
the Theoreme, that the .ij. angles of the greater cantle, which
are by B. and D, as is before declared, are greatter eche of
them then a right angle. And the angles of the lesser cantle,
whiche are by the same letters B, and D, but be on the other
side of the corde, are lesser eche of them then a right angle,
and be therfore sharpe corners.


_The lxxiiij. Theoreme._

  If a right line do touche a circle, and from the pointe
  where they touche, a righte lyne be drawen crosse the
  circle, and deuide it, the angles that the saied lyne dooeth
  make with the touche line, are equall to the angles whiche
  are made in the cantles of the same circle, on the contrarie
  sides of the lyne aforesaid.

_Example._

  [Illustration]

The circle is A.B.C.D, and the touche line is E.F. The pointe of
the touchyng is D, from which point I suppose the line D.B, to
be drawen crosse the circle, and to diuide it into .ij. cantles,
wherof the greater is B.A.D, and the lesser is B.C.D, and in ech
of them an angle is drawen, for in the greater cantle the angle
is by A, and is made of the right lines B.A, and A.D, in the
lesser cantle the angle is by C, and is made of y^e right lines
B.C, and C.D. Now saith the Theoreme that the angle B.D.F, is
equall to the angle made in the cantle on the other side of the
said line, that is to saie, in the cantle B.A.D, so that the
angle B.D.F, is equall to the angle B.A.D, because the angle
B.D.F, is on the one side of the line B.D, (whiche is according
to the supposition of the Theoreme drawen crosse the circle) and
the angle B.A.D, is in the cãtle on the other side. Likewaies
the angle B.D.E, beyng on the one side of the line B.D, must be
equall to the angle B.C.D, (that is the ãgle by C,) whiche is
made in the cãtle on the other side of the right line B.D. The
profe of all these I do reserue, as I haue often saide, to a
conuenient boke, wherein they shall be all set at large.


_The .lxxv. Theoreme._

  In any circle when .ij. right lines do crosse one an other,
  the likeiamme that is made of the portions of the one line,
  shall be equall to the lykeiamme made of the partes of the
  other lyne.

  [Illustration]

Because this Theoreme doth serue to many vses, and wold be wel
vnderstande, I haue set forth .ij. examples of it. In the
firste, the lines by their crossyng do make their portions
somewhat toward an equalitie. In the second the portiõs of the
lynes be very far frõ an equalitie, and yet in bothe these and
in all other y^e Theoreme is true. In the first exãple the
circle is A.B.C.D, in which thone line A.C, doth crosse thother
line B.D, in y^e point E. Now if you do make one likeiãme or
lõgsquare of D.E, & E.B, being y^e .ij. portions of the line
D.B, that longsquare shall be equall to the other longsquare
made of A.E, and E.C, beyng the portions of the other line A.C.
Lykewaies in the second example, the circle is F.G.H.K, in
whiche the line F.H, doth crosse the other line G.K, in the
pointe L. Wherfore if you make a lykeiamme or longsquare of the
two partes of the line F.H, that is to saye, of F.L, and L.H,
that longsquare will be equall to an other longsquare made of
the two partes of the line G.K. which partes are G.L, and L.K.
Those longsquares haue I set foorth vnder the circles containyng
their sides, that you maie somewhat whet your own wit in
practisyng this Theoreme, accordyng to the doctrine of the
nineteenth conclusion.


_The .lxxvi. Theoreme._

  If a pointe be marked without a circle, and from that pointe
  two right lines drawen to the circle, so that the one of
  them doe runne crosse the circle, and the other doe touche
  the circle onely, the long square that is made of that whole
  lyne which crosseth the circle, and the portion of it, that
  lyeth betwene the vtter circumference of the circle and the
  pointe, shall be equall to the full square of the other
  lyne, that onely toucheth the circle.

_Example._

The circle is D.B.C, and the pointe without the circle is A,
from whiche pointe there is drawen one line crosse the circle,
and that is A.D.C, and an other lyne is drawn from the said
pricke to the marge or edge of the circumference of the circle,
and doeth only touche it, that is the line A.B. And of that
first line A.D.C, you maie perceiue one part of it, whiche is
A.D, to lie without the circle, betweene the vtter circumference
of it, and the pointe assigned, whiche was A. Nowe concernyng
the meanyng of the Theoreme, if you make a longsquare of the
whole line A.C, and of that parte of it that lyeth betwene the
circumference and the point, (whiche is A.D,) that longesquare
shall be equall to the full square of the touche line A.B,
accordyng not onely as this figure sheweth, but also the saied
nyneteenth conclusion dooeth proue, if you lyste to examyne the
one by the other.

  [Illustration]


_The lxxvii. Theoreme._

  If a pointe be assigned without a circle, and from that
  pointe .ij. right lynes be drawen to the circle, so that the
  one doe crosse the circle, and the other dooe ende at the
  circumference, and that the longsquare of the line which
  crosseth the circle made with the portiõ of the same line
  beyng without the circle betweene the vtter circumference
  and the pointe assigned, doe equally agree with the iuste
  square of that line that endeth at the circumference, then
  is that lyne so endyng on the circumference a touche line
  vnto that circle.

_Example._

In as muche as this Theoreme is nothyng els but the sentence of
the last Theoreme before conuerted, therfore it shall not be
nedefull to vse any other example then the same, for as in that
other Theoreme because the one line is a touche lyne, therfore
it maketh a square iust equal with the longsquare made of that
whole line, whiche crosseth the circle, and his portion liyng
without the same circle. So saith this Theoreme: that if the
iust square of the line that endeth on the circumference, be
equall to that longsquare whiche is made as for his longer sides
of the whole line, which commeth from the pointt assigned, and
crosseth the circle, and for his other shorter sides is made of
the portion of the same line, liyng betwene the circumference of
the circle and the pointe assigned, then is that line whiche
endeth on the circumference a right touche line, that is to
saie, yf the full square of the right line A.B, be equall to the
longsquare made of the whole line A.C, as one of his lines, and
of his portion A.D, as his other line, then must it nedes be,
that the lyne A.B, is a right touche lyne vnto the circle D.B.C.
And thus for this tyme I make an ende of the Theoremes.

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_Errors and Inconsistencies:_

Unless otherwise noted, spelling, punctuation and capitalization are
unchanged. Forms were regularized only where there was a very large
disparity between the expected form and the apparent errors (for
example, a thousand “A.B” against a dozen “A,B”), or a flagrant
misprint such as “cnt” for “cut”.

The letters u and v follow the conventional “initial v, non-initial u”
pattern except in numbers (xv, iv). The lower-case j form occurs only
as the last digit of a number (ij, xxj); upper-case I and J share a
form, always read as I. Italic double s was printed as an ſ+s ligature,
similar to the German ß; it is shown as simple “ss”. Capital and
lower-case “w” were often used interchangeably. Words split across
line breaks may or may not have a hyphen.


_Language:_

The word “other” is used interchangeably with both “or” and “either”;
similarly, “nother” is used in place of “nor” and “neither”. The
expression “an other” is almost always written as two words.

The spellings “then(ne)” and “than(ne)” are used interchangeably;
“than(ne)” is rare. The spelling “liyng”, both by itself and as the
end of a longer word, is used consistently.


_Illustrations:_

A number of illustrations contain errors such as unmarked or mislabeled
points (“circle B.C.D” where only C and D are labeled). Errors of this
type are identified in the illustrated HTML version, but not in the
present text-only file.


_Greek:_

All Greek is shown and transliterated as printed. Errors or anomalies
include missing, misplaced or incorrect diacritics; the letterform σ
for ς; and word-final μ (mu) for ν (nu).

  ἐίπερ γὰρ ἀδικεῖμ χρὴ, τυραννΐδος περῒ κάλλιστομ ἀδικεῖμ, τ’ ἄλλα
  δ’ ἐυσεβεῖμ χρεῶμ.
  #eiper gar adikeim chrê, turannidos peri kallistom adikeim, t' alla
  d' eusebeim chreôm.#

  Φΐλιππος Αριστοτέλει χαίρειμ
  #Philippos Aristotelei chaireim#

  ἔσθε μοι γεγονότα ὑομ. πολλὴμ οὖμ τοῖσ θεοῖσ χάριμ ἔχω, ὀυχ
  ὅυτωσ ἐπῒ τῆ γεννήσει του παιδόσ, ὡσ ἐπῒ τῷ κατὰ τὴμ σὴμ ἡλικῒαμ
  αὐτόμ γεγονέναι ἐλπΐζω γὰρ αὐτὸμ ὑπὸ σοῦ γραφέντα καὶ παιδευθέντα
  ἄξιομ ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἑιμῶμ καὶ τῆς τῶμ τραγμάτωμ διαδοχῆσ.
  #esthe moi gegonota huom. pollêm oum tois theois charim echô, ouch
  houtôs epi tê gennêsei tou paidos, hôs epi tô kata têm sêm hêlikiam
  autom gegonenai elpizô gar autom hupo sou graphenta kai paideuthenta
  axiom esesthai kai heimôm kai tês tôm pragmatôm diadochês.#

  Ἄλέζανδρος Αρισοτέλει εὖ πράττειμ
  #Alezandros Arisotelei eu pratteim#

  Ὂυκ ὀρθῶσ ἐπόιησασ ἐκδοὺσ τοὺσ ἀκροαματικόυσ τῶμ λόγωμ, τΐνι
  γὰρ διοισομην ἡμεῖσ τῶμ ἄλλωμ, ἐι καθ’ οὕσ ἐπαιδεύθημεν λόγουσ,
  ὅυτοι πάντωμ ἔσονταιν κοινόι, ἐγὼ δὲ βουλοί μημ ἅμ ταῖσ περι τὰ
  ἄριστα ἐμπειρΐαισ, ἢ τὰισ δυνάμεσι διαφέριμ. ἔρρωσο.
  #Ouk orthôs epoiêsas ekdous tous akroamatikous tôm logôm, tini
  gar dioisomên hêmeis tôm allôm, ei kath' hous epaideuthêmen logous,
  houtoi pantôm esontai koinoi, egô de bouloi mêm am tais peri ta
  arista empeiriais, ê tais dunamesi diapherim. errôso.#

  ακροαματικοι  #akroamatikoi#

  Αγεομέτρητοσ ὀυδὲισ ἐισΐτω  #Ageometrêtos oudeis eisitô#

  [Sidenote: ἰσόπλευρομ.]  #isopleurom#

  [Sidenote: ισόσκελεσ.]  #isoskeles#

  [Sidenote: σκαλενὄμ.]  #skalenom#

  [Sidenote: ἀναπληρώματα]  #anaplêrômata#


_Meaningful Errors and Anomalies:_

  shal be clean extrirped and rooted out
    [_spelling unchanged: intended form not certain_]
  new and new causes to pray for your maiestie, perceiuyng
    [_text “new and new causes” probably intentional_]
  [Preface] And thus for this tyme I make an end...
  [Body text] The definitions of the principles of GEOMETRY.
    [_Pagination as shown by signature numbers demands another leaf
    (two pages) between the end of the Preface and the beginning of
    the body text. But no text is missing, and the facsimile has no
    blank pages._]
  Otherlesse then it as you se D
    [_text unchanged: intended wording uncertain_]
  THE .XXII. CONCLVSION.  [.XXI.]
  THE XXXVIII. CONCLVSION.  [XXXVII.]
  _The xxvi. Theoreme._
    There is no xxv. (25) theorem.
  _The .xxxix. theoreme._
    The text of the Example is garbled, and does not fit the
    illustration. Among other problems, points C and D seem to have
    been switched, either in the text or in the illustration.
  The circle is A.B.C.D, and his centre is E: the angle on the centre
  is C.E.D, and the angle on the circumference is C.A.D t their commen
  ground line, is C.F.D.
    [cirle]
    [_printing of “C.E.D” unclear: looks like “C.F.D” but center of
    circle is E_]
    [_lone “t” may be error for ampersand or other punctuation_]
    [C.F.D,]


_Misprints:_

  Aristotle had putte forthe certaine bookes  [kookes]
  And his father king Dauid ioyneth  [Danid]
  those thynges are done by negromancy. And hereof came it that
    fryer Bakon was accompted so greate a negromancier
    [_spelling unchanged_]
  For vndoubtedly if they mean  [vndoudtedly if the]
  that Godde was alwaies workinge  [alwaaies]
  all the lines that be drawen to the circumference  [circumfernece]
  An other hath but one compassed  [hatht]
  whose sydes partlye are all equall as in A  [eqnall]
  as this A. doth partly expresse  [A doth partly eppresse]
  To make a threlike triangle on any lyne measurable.  [or any]
  and it shall cut the first line in two equall portions.  [cnt]
  then open I the compass as wide as .iiij. partes  [compaas]
  To make a plumbe lyne on any porcion of a circle  [or any]
  for euery triangle together an equal likeiamme
    [_text has “to/gether” at line break: may be meant for two words_]
  as you mai se by C and D, for ij. sides of both the triãngles ar
    parallels.
    [you maise ... triãgls]
  then will the square of that greater portion  [portior]
  that line I say is a touche line  [touthe]
  (that is to saie M. G,)  [_error for “in G”?_]
  one perpẽdicular from G. vnto the side side B.C  [A.C]
  then must I first draw a tuche lyne  [wust]
  anye of the two lynes contayninge the angle appointed.  [nye of]
  draw thence two lines, one to D  [one to A]
  which is made accordinge to the conclusion.  [ancordinge]
  you shal perceaue that there will be  [peceaue]
  a / more conueni/ent time.
    [_text has “conui/ent” at line break_]
  other in deciding some controuersy  [decising]
  a great deale the soner  [somner]
  Whiche example hath beene vsede  [hat]
  whã I wrote these first cõnclusions  [cũclusions]
  suche bokes as ar appoynted  [as at]
  Will I refuse.  [Willl]
  all right angles be equall  [eqnall]
  whiche thinge the better to perceaue  [peceaue]
  whiche I do only by examples declare  [declae]
  about the groũd line, are equal togither  [groud]
  you shal take this triangle A.B.C. which hath a very blunt corner
    [_word “this” illegible_]  [veery blunt]
  the one is a longe square A.B.E
    [_printed as shown: expected form is “A.B.F.E”_]
  though they be diuers in numbre.  [numbhe]
  proofe that G.H. being the groũd line  [groud]
  and standing betwene one paire of parallels  [an]
  for thei ar the two y^e contrary sides  [_word “y^e” superfluous?_]
  they haue one ground line D.E.  [on]
  ¶ By the square of any lyne  [sqnare]
  squares that are made of the same line  [sane]
  The fyrst lyne propounded is A.B  [propouned]
  hath another longe square equall to hym
    [_text has anomalous “a / nother” at line break_]
  one of those parts again into other ij. parts  [iuto]
  which thing the easyer is to be vnderstande  [eayser]
  and blunt cornered triangles  [couered]
  the square marked with G. is the square of A.B  [with C.]
  And from all pointes you maye drawe ij. equall lines  [poittes]
  If two circles bee drawen so one withoute an other  [and other]
  drawen frome the centre of the circle to the pointe  [tge]
  which in the theoreme is supposed.  [the .heoreme]
  and therfore can not they be called lyke cantels  [ban]
  then would the angle in it be lesser  [it]
  being cutte frome his circumference, by the right line F.H.
    [circumforence]
  And in lyke sorte shall you iudg  [And n lyke]


_Punctuation, Spacing, Capitalization:_

Phrase breaks where a comma is followed by a capital letter, or a
period by a lower-case letter, are not individually noted.

Number forms such as “those. ij. last” or “line. A.B.” were silently
regularized to “those .ij. last” and “line .A.B.” Missing sentence-final
periods at the end of a printed line were silently supplied.

  _Initial u or medial v unchanged:_
    ioyneth uertuous conuersacion
    XXV. CONCLVSION.... the whole circle agreynge therevnto.
    or eande in the utter edge of his circumference
    onles the uery meaning of the wordes be firste vnderstand

  Geometry teacheth the drawyng, Measuring and proporcion
    [_capital M in original_]

  And herof cõmeth that secõnde thing wherin al agree
    [that secõnde . thing]
  if they can with their wysedome ouercome all vyces. Of the firste of
  those three sortes
    [_text reads “... their rwysedome ... / ... th ee sortes ...”
    on consecutive lines. The extraneous “r” is directly above the
    missing or invisible “r”_]
  ακροαματικοι.  [_final . missing_]
  was he estemed for his wisdom.  [_final . missing_]
  wisedom is better then pretious stones . yea
    [_punctuation unchanged_]
  your Maiesties excellencye,  [excellencye,,]
  if his subiectes be riche in substaunce,  [sub staunce]
  new and new causes to pray for your maiestie, perceiuyng
    [maiestie,perceiuyng]
  can be ignorant thereof, in so much that  [thereof. in]
  those thynges are done by negromancy.  [_spelling unchanged_]
  thogh it be but smal, and thefore not notable.  [_final . missing_]
  but boweth any waye, such are called  [waye. such]
  not call it one croked lyne, but rather  [cr oked]
  Now to geue you example of triangles,  [triangles,,]
  a portiõ of a globe as the figur marked w^t A.  [_final . missing_]
  as is the figure G. other ij. sharp and one blunt
  these examples .M. N, and O. where M. hath a right angle, N,
    a blunte angle
    [.M.N, and O where ... N, A, blunte]
  as in this exãple because A.B, is drawen in length  [A,B,]
  the ãgle C, is called an vtter ãgle.  [_final . missing_]
  _diamõdlike_, whose figur is noted with T.  [_final . missing_]
  and partlye vnequall, as in B, and they  [in, B and]
  as in this figure is some what expressed.  [_final . missing_]
  thẽ draw a line frõ B, to F, & so I haue mine intẽt.
    [_final . missing_]
  then open I the compasse as wyde as A.C,  [A,C,]
  F, this space betwene D. and F.  [betwene D and F.]
  crosse that other first line in .ij. places.  [_final . missing_]
  The arch to be diuided ys A.D.C, the corde is A.B.C,  [A,B.C,]
  and ther set a mark. Then take a long line  [mark Then]
  a parallel must be drawen howe you shall doo it.  [doo it,]
  equal to A.B, as for exãple D.F.  [D,F.]
  accordyng to the fifth conclusion  [accordyngt o]
  (accordyng as the .viij. cõclusion teacheth)
    [_comma for close parenthesis_]
  it hath one angle (that is B.A.E.) like to D
    [_close parenthesis missing_]
  therefore I wyl by example sette forth  [ther efore]
  thenne drawe I a line also from N. vnto C.  [vnto C]
  is equall vnto A.B, and so is K.L.  [K.L,]
  you mai se by C. and D, for ij. sides  [by C and D,]
  accordyng to the lengthe lo the peece that remaineth
    [_error for “of the”?_]
    [th e peece]
  this line A.B, (w^{ch} was assigned vnto me)  [A,B,]
  & thus haue you attained y^e vse of this cõclusiõ.
    [_final . missing_]
  Make in a table the like draught  [A table]
  vsing it as it wer a croked ruler.  [_final . missing_]
  the lines of diuision A.D, B.E  [A. D. B. E]
  whose two sides A.C. and B.C. are diuided  [B,C.]
  enclose those iij prickes. that centre as you se is D
    [prickes that centre . as]
  as you se B.A.D, and B.C.E.  [B.C,E.]
  at this tyme wyll shewe you  [she,we]
  as youre selfe mai easily gesse.  [_final . missing_]
  A.C. and B.D. are the two diameters  [A.C. and B D.]
  A.B.C.D. is the quadrate appointed  [A,B.C.D.]
  quadrate from angle to angle, as you se A.C. & B D.  [A.C. & B D.]
  A.B.C. is the circle, whiche I haue deuided  [A,B.C.]
  And from eche pricke ij. lines drawen  [line sdrawen]
  I would make a circle. Therfore I drawe  [circle, Therfore]
  of equall sides and equall angles.  [angles,]
  perceaue by the xxxvij. xxxviij. xxxix. and xl. conclusions
    [xxxviij xxxix.]
  that be nighest  [that be . nighest]
  learne the demonstrations by harte, (as somme
    [_missing open parenthesis_]
  sundrye woorkes partely ended, and partely to bee ended  [And]
  As for example A--------B. A. being the one pricke  [A being]
  that corner which is greatter then a right angle
    [_s in “is” invisible_]
  firste these two right lines A.B. and A.C.  [A B. and A.C.]
  ij. quantities, as A. and B, be equal to an other  [as A and B,]
  in an other place. In the mean season  [in]
  drawen forthe vnto D. and E.  [vnto D and E.]
  [The thirde Theoreme.] Example.  [_final . missing_]
  and yet the ij. lesser sides togither ar greater then it.
    [_text has “... yet thr ... ar greate” at consecutive line-ends_]
  the angle C. (whiche are the ij. angles contayned
    [_missing open parenthesis_]
  M.N. equall also to H.L.  [H,L.]
  therefore are A.C. and B.D. bothe equall  [A,C.]
  A.D.E, and D.E.B, which (as the xxvij.
    [_missing open parenthesis_]
  _The xxxi. theoreme._  [xxxi, theoreme.]
  there is made a triangle B.C.G, and a lykeiamme  [B.C G,]
  fyll vp the sydes of the .ij. fyrste square lykeiammes  [.ij fyrste]
  equall to the .ij. squares of both the other sides.
    [_final . missing_]
  The ij. lines proposed ar A.B. and C.D  [A B. and C.D]
  for the square D.E.F.G. is equal to the two other partial squares
  of D.H.K.G and H.E.F.K,
    [D,E.F.G. ... D.H.K G]
  _The xxxvij. Theoreme._  [xxxvij Theoreme.]
  the square that is made of the whole line
    [_first t in “that” invisible_]
  (which is equall with D.G.)  [D,G.]
  Lette the diuided line bee A.B, and parted in C  [A,B,]
  the square of the whole lyne A.B,  [A,B,]
  as herafter I will declare in conuenient place.  [_final . missing_]
  two lesser squares beyng taken away,
    [_close parenthesis for comma_]
  the great square, and that is G.F.M.H.  [G,F.M.H.]
  two vnequall partes as happeneth. The long square  [the]
  _The .xlvi. Theoreme._  [The.xlvi.]
  _The xlvij. Theoreme._  [xlvij Theoreme.]
  and doo not passe by the centre  [passeby]
  For as you may easily iudge, A.C. hath one portiõ  [A C.]
  if they be equally distaunt from one halfe of the diameter
    [_second l in “equally” invisible_]
  then it, and beynge farther of  [it. and]
  the second circle is B.C.D.E, and they crosse  [B.C.D,E,]
  The secõd circle is D.B.C, and his cẽtre is H  [D,B.C,]
  that is farther from the centre. The fourth  [centre, The]
  twise so great as the other angle on the circũferẽce.
    [_final . missing_]
  The lesser is D.E.C, and the geater is D.A.B.C.  [D.F.C,]
  therefore are they both equall.  [_final . missing_]
  What is ment by like cantles you haue heard before  [mentby]
  by the equalitie of the righte lines, so dothe this Theoreme
    [so do the this]
  Also it is meet to note y^t al angles that be made  [y^{t}al]
  whiche maketh two cantles of the whole circle.  [circle,]
  which is made of a line A.B, and the line A.D,  [A,B,]
  I saie accordyng to the Theoreme, that the .ij. angles  [.ij angles]
  so that the angle B.D.F, is equall to the angle B.A.D  [B D.F,]
  make their portions somewhat toward an equalitie.  [_final . missing_]
  doth crosse thother line B.D, in y^e point E.  [B D,]
  whiche was A. Nowe concernyng the meanyng  [No we]





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