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opinion , severely dehorting all hisfollowers from prostituting Mathe-matical principles, unto common ap-prehension or practise. Like the en-vious Emperour Tiberius , who is re-ported to have killed an Artificer formaking glass malleable, searing lestthereby the price of metals might bedebased. So he, in his superstitionto Philosophy, would rather chuseto deprive the world of all those use-ful and excellent inventions whichmight be thence contrived , than toexpose that prosesiion unto the con-tempt of the ignorant vulgar.

But his Scholar Anjiotle , (as in ma-ny other particulars, ib likewise inthis )did justly oppose him, and be-came himself one of the first Au-thors that hath writ any methodi-cal Diseourse concerning these arts ;chusing rather a certain and generalbenefit, before the hazard that mightaccrue from the vain and groundlessdisrespects of some ignorant persons."Being so far from esteeming Geo-metry dishonoured by the applicati-on