ftud^, but eficdchujly ferviceahU^under the beavieti imnmhrdficet^ 
as well for the defence of our Kifig and Country agamfiJirjUk Inva* 
fons and Encroachments^ and for fapf ^^ijf nHtjfaries for life ^ 
healthy and J^rength m War, mfor Accommodattonfy Elegancies and 
Ornaments in times of Peace and Profperity. 
"Tis manifefi.that the Mathematical and Mechanical Arts are no 
lefsfeafonahle in thtfeour Colli fiom, for the s^H andfecnritji of Navi- 
gation and for Naval Architecture for Engins, Fortifications^ Ar- 
tillery ^ and the modern Ta9icl{s : Medicine andChhurgtvy fortite 
recovery of decayed healthy and the healing of loft cr wounded limbs; 
Agriculture for (uflenance 5 and^ in remembrance of the old Heroes^ 
I may add Martial Mufic, to excite C our age > and other Old and New 
Inventions proper to fur nifh other advantages: 'then fofter Delicacies 
are fit for treatments ^ fatisfaS ions and political endearmenis in the 
efiablifijment of fafe and peaceable Gmemment. An Archimedes 
may as juflly deferve applaujefor his fiout defence of Syracufa , as 
Phidias for the tender touches of his ChifeL in fafhianingthe Pour- 
traitures of Jupiter and Minervai 
And 'in by the Intelligent acl^nowledged^that there arey at this day, 
a great number af more excellent Artificers , in almrfiall l^inds of 
Worl{s^which are deduced from the Ingenuom Arts ^ forftrength and 
beauty^ and for allneceffaries and alUuriofities, than, I thin^ w^re 
ever before feen in England'^^ andthatthefe Arts could not have grown 
fo foon to fuch height y if hisMajefties extraordinary Magnificence 
and the Public Exigences hdd not concurr d to^xcite almefi an Vni^ 
verftl Induflry, By the^ivine conduS^ immediately after His Maje* 
^ies return^ his Countenance and his own great Example in Repairing 
and Adorning his Royal Palaces^ and in firengihning and increafing 
his Navy i and his RoyM Grant of a Charter to eiiablifh the Roy a 1 So- 
ciety (according to C\c€iojfintencey}ionos Q\n ^Ttes:)AlltheJ^ en^ 
couragements made the way ^and prewar dskjlfulMafiers^ and Guides^ 
tofurvey^ direS and promote all Jplendid Stru3ures and Embeilijh* 
nsents^ which are now fo conf^icuous in the chief places of this King^ 
dom i and the abundance of goodly ships y which do^ now ride in all^ 
our navigable Rivers and in all our Seas. 
But Imuii decline a Tas^too hard for my pen^ and too great for 
leifure^^and fh aU humbly prefent before your Lordjhips eye aclofer and 
fijorter veiw of fome particulars contain din this fmall Volume ^h^tO'^ 
nomy , and other chief parts of the Mathematicl{s^ and a diligent- 
fearcb into the depths of nature ^into the nature of Animals yPegetables^ 
and all simples^ Compounds and Mixtures^ mre the hufmefs^ and in. 
fome 
