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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03653	Speculum topographicum: or The topographicall glasse Containing the vse of the topographicall glasse. Theodelitus. Plaine table, and circumferentor. With many rules of geometry, astronomy, topography perspectiue, and hydrography. Newly set forth by Arthur Hopton Gentleman.	Hopton, Arthur, 1587 or 8-1614.	1611 (1611)	STC 13783; ESTC S104220	122,586	206

Speculum Topographicum OR THE Topographicall Glasse Containing The vse of the Topographicall Glasse The vse of the Theodelitus The vse of the Plaine Table and Circumferentor With many Rules of Geometry Astronomy Topography perspectiue and Hydrography Newly set forth by Arthur Hopton Gentleman Printed at London by N. O. for Simon Waterson dwelling at the signe of the Crowne in Paules Church-yard 1611. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS Lord Ellesmere Lord Chauncellor of ENGLAND THE Priuiledge Right Honorable is common and the custome commendable to dedicate bookes to Noble persons to the end that what is effected by labour and study may by their greatnesse be protected from maledictions and enuie and therefore we select one whose eminent vertues exempt from Riuals is of all admired by all obserued and with all beloued and there the choicest wits shelter their chiefest workes the habit of which wonderfull glories I finde most predominating in your Honour which are powerful inducements to animate this presumption in crauing patronage for this worke The Booke containes no nice or new controuersies but matter of Art verified with demonstrations Geometricall as still ready to confirme the truth to the ignorant or confute the malice of the arrogant which though it be not fashioned out with beautifull lineaments or painted ouer with golden phrases yet is there dainties sufficient to delight the eye and recreate the mind choice of varieties to beguile the time with gaine of knowledge and easie methods with facill documents to abiure the barbarous tyrant to vnderstanding Things of greatest profit require lest praise the white silver is wrought in the blacke pitch painting better beseemes rotten wals then pretious stones the Mathematikes vse no conference with the sence-rauishing Rhetorique their end is to instruct not perswade therefore superfluous eloquence besto●ed vpon a matter of sufficient excellence is rather a testimony of a trifling wit then a token of true wisedome A chiefe cause wherefore I now proue troublesome is my loue to your Lordship whom I euer honored and the aduancement of the Art that I alwayes liked By the one I shew my duty to a name emphasizing honor and by the other my affection to an Art expressing wonders Alexander would be painted by none but Apelles nor haue his picture cast in brasse by any but Lisippus Appelles asked councell of none but Zeuxis and Lisippus must onely censure Prisius neither do I in this appeale to any but your Lordship which as your selfe are honorable so are your proceedings equitable so that all England may boast of your great iustice and all Europe reioyce of your good conscience amongst which my selfe with the best will euer beare testimony the great sonne of the Macedonian king honored Craterus but most affected Hephestion and I reuerence all good wits but here only appeale to your Honors wisdome that as it is exceeding the grauest so is it more excellent then the greatest and therefore by the inferiors fitter to be admired then commended But because your cogitations cannot but be defessed and made weary as well in priuate contemplating of his Maiesties serious affaires as in publique negotiating for the good of the Comonwealth I thinke it best to cease trouble lest I offend your noble meditations being leuelled at more weighty entendments not doubting but the practizers in these Arts will yeeld your Honor perpetuall thankes that for their good haue brought this Glasse to light where they may see choise of delights to satisfie their aspiring wits Thus committing this Booke to your Honorable patronage your Honor to the Almighties protection and my selfe to your Honors command I end resting Your Honors in all humble duty ARTHVR HOPTON TO THE MATHEMATIcall Practizer PLATO saith there was in old time an Oracle giuen vnto the Greekes that they should double the Altar in the Temple of Delos which was a peece of worke for an excellent Geometritian to performe that had the very habit and perfection of the Arte but it was not there literally meant as Plutarch in his Symposiaques hath expounded that they should do so indeed but thereby they were iniointed to study Geometry to the end they might be able to performe any peece of worke of as great consequence Pythagoras offered sacrifice to the Gods to know when two figures are giuen how to finde a third equall to the first and semblable to the latter Both which are strong arguments inuincible proofes and perswading authorities as well of the necessity to obtaine as of the difficulty in obtaining the Art The remembrance whereof kinde reder hath oftentimes solicited me to make good my promise ●●cely granted in my Geodeticall Staffe concerning the publishing of my Topographical Glasse which hauing now accomplished there remaines nothing more but to craue a kind acceptance and fauourable construction so shall you shake off that viscosious filth of ingratitude which so much conglomerates the heart of the enuious for the poyson of malice being once fostered in mens breasts without resistance buddeth forth daily more malignant fruits whereby men run a malo in peius as the fish out of the pan into the fire it is vaine then to begge applaudites of such for Ruby stones are not found in flinty rockes nor redolent flowers amongst rough thystles A corrupt stomacke yeeldeth no sweet breath and an enuious minde seldome due praise Arte may checke but cann t quite change what nature c●erisheth insomuch that where ca●●●●●ation d●samation and vile malediction are so consonant an● coherent in the heart s●eking nought but contention and controuersie foolish are intreaties to win sauours or perswasions to purchase kinde constructions turning alwaies the band of gratitude into the p●ssion of hatred Leauing them therefore let vs direct our speech to the beneuolent reader and kinde expositor that wrings no sence to ambiguities that wrests no saying to amphibologies that seekes no euersion of the word nor auersion of the worke that vrgeth no dissention in the methode or dissipation of the matter but aimes to get benefite by his reading and to yeeld thankes for the writing imbracing that which yeelds profit and reiecting all which is impertinent that receiuing a rose returnes a Hyacinth to such do I commend this Topographicall Glasse as a pure transparent Christall wherin he may see a number of art like pleasures and delightfull conclusions performed by the methode of diuers instruments as by the Glasse by the Theodelitus by the Plaine Table and by the Circumferentor by all which shalt thou bee seuerally taught to describe Countries and Kingdomes to make Mappes of new discoueries to plat Mannors Lordships or Townes to measure parkes pastures or inclosures and that after diuers new wayes Also here are you taught to seeke the distance of Townes the height of Turrets to conuey waters to plant Cities and houses to plat buildings and to measure all k●nd of ●imber Stone Piramides Columnes Cones Spheares Globes and such like in a methode differing from any heretofore published so that if