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DE AUGMENTIS SCIENTIAIIUM 



Neque leve quiddam obiter hoc modo perfectum est. Etenlm 

 ex hoc ipso patet modus, quo ad omnem loci distantiam, per 

 objecta qua3 vel visui vel auditui subjici possint, eensa animi 

 proferre et significare liceat ; si modo objecta ilia, duplicis 

 tantum differentiae capacia sunt; veluti per campanas, per 

 buccinas, per flammeos, per sonitus tormentorum, et alia qua> 

 cunque. Verum ut incoeptum persequamur, cum ad scribendum 

 accingeris, epistolam interiorem in Alphabetum hoc Bilitera- 

 rium solves. Sit epistola interior ; 



Fuge. 

 Exemplum Solutionis. 



F 



Aabab. 



V 

 baabb. 



G 



aabba. 



E. 



aabaa. 



Praesto simul sit aliud Alphabetum Biforme ; nimirum quod 

 singulas Alphabeti Communis literas, tarn capitales quam 

 minores, duplici forma, prout cuique commodum sit, exhibeat. 



Exemplum Alphabeti Biformis. 1 



Turn demum epistolae interiori, jam factae biliteratas, epi- 

 stolam exteriorem biformem literatim accommodabis, et postea 

 describes. Sit epistola exterior ; 



Manere ie volo donee venero. 



tion, resembling handwriting, and apparently cut in wood for the occasion. But as 

 it is only in the Alphabetum Biforme and the Exempla Accommodationis that anything 

 depends upon the shape of the letters, I have printed all the rest in the common italic 

 type./. S. 



1 This biform alphabet is set out somewhat differently in the original edition. The 

 characters are cut to represent handwriting, the distinctions being made by loops or 

 flourishes ; and the (a) or (6) is repeated in every case. By keeping the columns dis- 

 tinct, I have avoided the necessity of this repetition ; and I have obtained the requisite 

 distinction between the two sets of characters by using types belonging to two dif- 

 ferent founts. The particular iorms of the letters are of course immaterial, so long as 

 those which stand for a can be clearly distinguished from those which stand for b ; 

 and the table, as I have arranged it, will be found easier of reference. /. S. 



