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vviffieth increafe of^oi^ 

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Rchimedes , after 



Iofig fearchmadc to fiftde 

 out the fraudulent rayx- 

 ture of King Hicrons gol- 

 den Crowne: could not by 

 anymeanesattaine the fe- 

 crcte thereof, till atlength 

 byebaunce as he was Ba- 

 thing himfelf, heobferucd 

 that ilill as his body cn- 

 tred into the water , it 

 forced the fame to ryfe and runne ouer the VefTcll : 

 wherupon the matter of the Crowne comming to hysre- 

 membrance^nd applying the manner of the water to his 

 prefent purpofe ,hec was foorth with mooued wichfuchc 

 exceeding ioy, that hec leapt fodainlye out ofthc water, 

 and forgetting him fclfe to bee naked, came crying to the 

 King hisMaifter,! haucfoundej hauefoundc: So I(right 

 Worfhipfull, although in other refpe&es & points of lear- 

 ning and knowledge , I will not prefiime to compare with 

 nArcbimcdes, who is many waics incomparable , nor with 

 any other learned Mathematician, beingmyfelfean vn- 

 learned Mathematician ) by occafion of my profefsion, 

 making fundry experimentes of the Magnes (lone , foundc 

 at length among!! many other effettcs, this ftrange and 

 newepropcrtie of Declining of the Needle t which for- 

 getting or rather aegle&ing mine owne nakcdnefTc and 

 want otlurniture to let foorth the mattcr,I haue heere in 

 fimple forte propofed and pubhfhcd to the viewc of the 



A a world. 



