meliùs innotefcere possit. [Which done into English is
substantially as follows]

Francis Vieta, a Frenchman, a most distinguished man, and on
account of his remarkable skill in Mathematical Science the
honour of the French nation, first of all with singular genius
and with industry hitherto unattempted undertook the
restoration of the analytic art, of which subject we are here
treating, which after the learned age of the Greeks for a long
time had become antiquated and remained uncultivated : and by
various treatises which he eloquently and ingeniously wrote in
the working out of this line of argument, left a record to
posterity of this noble design of his mind. But while he
seriously laboured at the restoration of the old Analysis,
which he had proposed to himself, he seems not so much to have
transmitted to us a restoration of that science, as a new and
original method, worked out and illustrated by his own
discoveries. This, having been enunciated in general terms,
must be explained a little more at length ; so that having
shown what was first effected by Vieta in promoting his
design, it may be more clear, what was afterwards performed by
our very learned author Thomas Harriot, who followed him in
these analytical investigations.

And at the end of the volume, on page 180, is the following explanatory
note :

AD MATHIMATICIS STUDIOSOS.

'Ex omnibus _Thoma Harrioti_ fcriptis Mathematicis,quòd