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The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie By: Robert Record (1510?-1558) |
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shown with a caret ^, adding {braces} where necessary for clarity. 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] ]
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
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