opus hoc Analyticum primum in publicum emiflum fit, haud
inconfulto factum eft. Nam, quùm reliqua eius opera,
multiplici inuentorum nouitate excellentia, eodem omnino quo
tractatus ifte (Logiftices fpeciofsæ exemplis omnimodis totus
compofitus) ftilo Logiftico, hactenùs inufitato, confcripta
fint, eâ certè ratione fit, vt prodromus hic tractatus, vltra
proprium ipfius inæftimabilem vfum, reliquis _Harrioti_
fcriptis, de quorum editione iam ferio cogitatur, pro
neceffario preparamento fiue introductorio opportunè inferuire
poffit. De quâ quidem accefforiâ operis huius vtilitate rerum
Mathematicarum ftudiofos paucis his præmonuiffe operæprecium
efle duximus.' [Which being interpreted reads as follows in
English]

TO STUDENTS OF MATHEMATICS.

It is not without good reason that, of all Thomas Harriot's
Mathematical writings, this on Analysis has been published
first. For whereas all his remaining works, remarkable for
their manifold novelties of discovery, are written precisely
in the same, hitherto unusual, logical style as this treatise
(which consists entirely of varied specimens of beautiful
reasoning); this was certainly done that this preliminary
treatise, besides its own inestimable utility, might suitably
serve as a necessary preparation or introduction to the study
of Harriot's remaining works, the publication of which is now
under serious consideration. Of this accessory use of this
treatise we have thought it worth while to remind mathematical
students in these brief remarks.