favor tutu accedat , mn iffam methddum tantum ^ fed ^ 
alia^ ma fmnl ohfervavi, hrevi-^ Deo bene juvante^ cenfur^ 
ttu fubmittere. 
We come next to fpeak of the laft part of the Book, to wir, 
his MifceHanea^ and becaufe it falls in here fomewhat properly, 
we therefore firft mention his fourth Chap. De Maximis cr Mi- 
nimisj from which he derives this Propofit:on ; 
if any Magnitude ( m' Number ^ as the whole 3 be divided into 
fuch parts , that are to each other as a Number to a Number, the 
Product of thofe powers of the parts, that are of the fame degree^ 
as the parts themf elves denominate^ is the greateft of all Products 
of the like powers of the parts of the fame magnitude when other* 
wife divided. 
Concerning the Propofidon the Author faith thus 5 Liceret 
hujm Propofuionis Ufum prolixius extender e ad determinandas 
nempe maxim as & minim as applicatarum in Cur vis, tangentes^ (jr 
fmilia verum cum hanc materiam nupr in Exercitatione fua 
Geometricd feliciter ag'?:refus fit Fir Clarifsimus Michad Ange- 
las Riccius, doctrina humanitate fmgulariy orbi littrato notifi^ 
mus^^juflioperis fpem facial*^ frufira nuncpluribpis infifierem^ 
cum meliora & ferfectiora ab ipfo propediem expectari debe^- 
ant- 
That exercitation of Piccio hath been lately re-prfnted for 
Mo[es Pitts J Book- feller in Little- Brit ain, (and is annexed to 
Mercators Logarithmotechnia^ wherein the Author Riccio^xo- 
mifeth a new Rank of Conical Solids^ which cut, do exhibit thoCe 
Infinite Parabolas and Bllipfes^ whereby all Equations may be 
eafily refolved and determined. But the Learned and Modeft 
Slufifis in a private Letter concerning thefe matters^ and Piccio s 
before-mention'd Geometrical Exercitation 5 faith fomewhat 
more. Diu efl ctiarnex (juo ea^ndem materiam aggrefftis fueram^ 
qua Methodo:, videhis in Mifcellaneorum meorum Cap, 4. uk Pro- 
pofitionemuniverfdem demon fiarviy ex qua omnia deduct p$ffunt^ 
ron tamen deduxiy ne viro amico^ qni hanc materiam jam occuparaty 
dr a quo multa ac praclara expectari Pofunt, occaftonem bene me^ 
rendi de Rep, liter aria prdriperem- 
Concerning the reft of the MijceBanies Our Author in the 
M. Chaft, tieates De Infmtis Spiralib^^ & fpatiorum, ab its & 
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