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Quotes from The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara — John Dee

1527–1608 England

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There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences.

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)

A mervaylous newtrality have these thinges Mathematicall, and also a straunge participatió betwene thynges supernaturall, immortall, intellectual, simple and indivisible: and thynges naturall, mortall, sensible, compounded and divisible.

The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570)

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