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Of his Tract abovementioned, intitled Sciotericon , and other Inventions,and Experiments, at the Age of Sixteen, relating to Gnomonicks, is a memor-able complimental Account from an eminent Mathematician of that Time,as follows:

Spectatislhne Juvenis,

OCiotericon tuum AKPiBslS concinnatum, cursuj'que heliaci Jidelem interpretetnaccept cquidem, & summd lujlravi cum voluptatc ; caterum hareo, utrutnartificis ingenium , an authoris minus magis congratuler ; utrumque Jiupensdemiror, deofculor ; ubi Solis diurna converjio , at que acce(fu , decejsuque an -nuo intrasolftitiales termtnos dimetitur ; quin & ipsa cœli facies, & variegates'plages uno intuitu contemplanda exponuntur. ’OPr A NON OPsANslN non alio de-"leBu gaudens quam proprio , & ft magnctica acus invent o minus aquale , certe magisinfallibilc, quod illud alienum fuperbiens duBum tuo j'ubdis diBamini , & faitijhus adminiculo veraci concilias concordia, jubefque (tud manu dimota) ad in -llitutum tuum subsiftere. Jnsuper non infra hujus folarii circulum tua admi-randa compinguntur. In paternis a dibits J’olertia tua Jpecimina , & limatePPhilosophies API's ANA omnibus auletis anteferenda appenduntur • & pro re natd,in cantoris , in tricliniis , & per quafeunque feneflras sol radios immittit,eos gnomonicorum subjicis regulis. Ncque cœlejlis motus contrario dispostU(quahs inter analemma , & horologium fold dirigi) fed (retorti luminis bendficio) ip/ijjimi folaris circuitus projeBione amuld. fit sol de sphara sua de -duBits tanquam sponsus procedens de thalamo exultat ut gigas ad currenduiflviam. 0 te f'alicem ! qui ipj’um Phœbum ante conspeBum provehis. ^'iiantaiUmefsem spondent hac tenuioris cetatis femina ? Nec male auguror te id genusfludiorum tameia, & Eleusnia ingrefsum , ad illorum delicias provehendas na-turn, terrasque adhuc in hoc gloho incognitas tud disquisitionis clave adaperien -das j adeo in id nervos intendis tuos. ^^odque *vo?~tat tihi j echcitcr jummopertadprecor. Vale Mathematicorum occlle, & ama

Pie falutiferœ pajstonisy tui observantijjimum,

10 April. 1649.

Thomas Aylesbury.

At the Age of Sixteen, he contrived, and modelled on Pasteboardillustrated with curious Agronomical Delineations in proper Colours, a ne"'Extat fenn Hypothesis , entitled, Ilypotypofis Prosthapharefesm Luna, in qua Circulationdcollector em. secundum Rationes 'Tycomanas , nova hac Hypothes exaBe demon ft rant A'

About the fame Age, he translated into Latin y a Tract of Mr. Oughtrd 5Clavis Mathematics , [clavis vere aurea ] viz. of Geometrical Dialling*which that eminent and learned Mathematician published with his oth^Works, inserting this memorable Remark in his Preface.-

Ougbtred. - -— Partem autern illam qua geometricam horologiorum sciotericoi'U }!i

Præfatio Iath ' ratimem tnadit t ex Anglico idiomate in Latinum vertit Dominus Chrisl 0 'Oxoni.r phorus Wren, Collegii Wadhamensis commensals s generofus, admirando pu° r '1652. Edit.^. jus tngenio juvenis, qui nondum Jexdecim annos natus, Aftronomianiy G n °'monicam, Staticam, Mechanicam praclaris inventis auxit ; ab eoque te# 1 'pore continua augere pergit ; & reverd is ejl a quo magna posum, ncq^fruftrd prope diem expcBare.

n.xtM fenr-s An Essay of his Skill in Gnomonicks, at that Age, was a very curioscoihtiortm. ReftcBing-Dial, delign’d on the Cieling of a Room, with this Injcrifs 0 ’embellisli’d with divers Devises, particularly two Figures represents

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