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The sixt Definition. A Whole number is either a unitie, or a compounded multitude of unities.

— Simon Stevin Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)

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The second Definition. Number is that which expresseth the quantitie of each thing.

Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)

Swanenburch engraving of sailing chariot design by Jaques de Gheyn, after Simon Stevin in "Early Mechanical Carriages," The Antiquary, (1896) Vol. 32.

The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found.

Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)

[The books of Euclid pass on to us] something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age.

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