sir CHRISTOPHER WREN, knt.

■Astronomy, and Geometry, and their Attributes, artfully drawn with his^ en > viz.

C h r. Wren.

Angustis satagem his laquearibusAd cœli methodum tempora pingereA Phœbo obtinuit luminis ut suiIdeeam, Jpeculo, linqueret æmulam ,$uœ ceelum hoc peragret luce vicar id,Cursusque ejstgiem finger et annui ;

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VERE FACTVS' HOMO EST EX VTERO DeVs, 1648.

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An early Proficiency in Learning and Mathematicks, may be further dif-by the following Specimens of some few of his Juvenile Studies, the.^nings of a bright Day, viz. An Epistle to his Father, informing him of

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e Friendship he had obtained of Dr. Scarborough, (afterwards Sir Charlesc P r borough, a celebrated Physician, and Mathematician.) of his InventionJ a Weather Clock ; and an Instrument to write in the Dark: Of a Tj'eatife Ætherocmi-“ Spherical trigonometry , in a new Method; with an Epitome of the fame,staved on a small circular Brass Plate : Of his Proposal to translate Part o fsdiptim.r> Gughtred’s Clavis Mathematicce of Geometrical Dialling, and his Epistle

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teal Eslays; one, particularly, to reform the Fables of the Zodiack .

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jj Octoris Clarimmi confoitto (Reverende Pater,) supra modum mi hi amicistimi [Sdl. Caroli; _ Utor ; nec dedig)iatur ajsablllS & humillitnus -uir, plurima quæ in mathe - Scarborough

foists multo cum plausu egit , niece (non dicam judicio) fed pbanta/icc ineptce.stfeere, & quid sentiam lenistimd aure attendere ; jape etiam imparibus meis

£ tl °ciniis inniti, dum ipfe vicistim quicqutd in Organicis, Mechanicifve pul-inveni , aut a te accept, magna cum illius dele Si at i one profero ; quorum

sj ° C( lui/ierit. Ext are nSJli in lingua vernaculd laudatijjmum Oughtredi deJV^ogiographia Geometrica traSiatum , quern ut lingua Romano, vejlirct,V? 0ren t [Scarborough] stepistime (fenio fatigatus) author rogaverat-, II le0 pmjoribus implicatus negotiis, in mt labcrem tranjhdit , Cui jam penefi->?i e j l>n P°Jui : Epistolam quoque author! additurus , ut hoc modo , in magnumtof COtn, nodum -, (talia promittense Doctore) Senis concihem f'avoremjhnu/que$l Us -fludioforum in Mathesi chori, qui Oughtredum, quasi patrem & ma-rUrn agnofeunt. -

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