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Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Henry Stevens
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The exact title is as follows:

Diclides Coelometricæ / Seu / Valvæ Astronomicæ / vniversales / Omnia
artis totius numera Psephophoretica in sat modicis / finibus duarum
Tabularum Methodo noua, generali,/ & facilima continentes./ Authore
Nathale Torporlaeo Salopiensi / in secessu Philotheoro. / Londini /
Excudebat Felix Kingston. 1602. / 4°.

In the long preface Torporley, who had entered St Mary's Hall the year
Hariot graduated, and who during his travels abroad had served two years
as private secretary or amanuensis to Francis Vieta, the great French
Mathematician, but who had since become a disciple of the greater
English Mathematician, thus admiringly speaks of his new master, Thomas
Hariot:

Neque enim, per Authorum cunctationem & affectatam
ob-scuritatem, fieri potuit, vt in prima huius Artis
promulgatione, eidem alicui & inventionis laudem, te erudiendi
mercedem deferremus; sed dimicamibus illis, neque de minoribus
præmijs quam de imperio Mathematico certantibus; mussantibus
vero alijs, & arrectis animis expectantibus,
Quis pecori imperitet, quern tot armenta sequantur; non defuit
Anglæ & suus Agonista (ornatifimum dico, et in omni
eruditionis varietate principemvirum Thomam Hariotum, homine
natu ad Artes illustrandas, &, quod illi palmariu erit
præstantissimu, ad nubes philofophicas, in quibus multa iam
secula caligauit mundus, indubitata; veritatis splendore
difcutiendas) qui vetaret, tarn folidz laudis spolia ad
exteros Integra deuolui. Ille enim (etiamdum in pharetra
conclufa, quæ pupilla viuacis auicular terebraret, sagitta)
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