The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara
Dee John
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Thechief vse and ende of this Art, is the Art of Nauigation: but it hathother diuerse vses: euen by them to be enioyed, that neuer lacke sightof land. +‡Stratarithmetrie‡+, is the Skill, (appertainyng to the warre, ) bywhich a man can set in figure, analogicall to any _Geometricall_ figureappointed, any certaine number or summe of men: of such a figurecapable: (by reason of the vsuall spaces betwene Souldiers allowed: andfor that, of men, can be made no Fractions. Yet, neuertheles, he canorder ...the giuen summe of men, for the greatest such figure, that ofthem, cã be ordred) and certifie, of the ouerplus: (if any be) and ofthe next certaine summe, which, with the ouerplus, will admit a figureexactly proportionall to the figure assigned. By which Skill, also, ofany army or company of men: (the figure & sides of whose orderlystanding, or array, is knowen) he is able to expresse the iust number ofmen, within that figure conteined: or (orderly) able to be conteined. [* Note.
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