no thyng needefull to the iuste proofe,
whereby this booke may bee wel approued to be more complete then
many men wolde suppose it.

And thus for this tyme I wyll make an ende without any larger
declaration of the commoditiees of this arte, or any farther
answeryng to that may bee obiected agaynst my handelyng of it,
wyllyng them that myslike it, not to medle with it: and vnto
those that will not disdaine the studie of it, I promise all
suche aide as I shall be able to shewe for their farther
procedyng both in the same, and in all other commoditees that
thereof maie ensue. And for their incouragement I haue here
annexed the names and brefe argumentes of suche bookes, as I
intende (God willyng) shortly to sette forth, if I shall
perceaue that my paynes maie profyte other, as my desyre is.

+The brefe argumentes of suche bokes as ar appoynted shortly
to be set forth by the author herof.+

THE seconde part of Arithmetike, teachyng the workyng by
fractions, with extraction of rootes both square and cubike: And
declaryng the rule of allegation, with sundrye plesaunt
exaumples in metalles and other thynges. Also the rule of false
position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some
appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber, applied vnto quantitees
partly rationall, and partly surde.

THE arte of Measuryng by the quadrate geometricall, and the
disorders committed by vsyng the same, not only reueled but
reformed also (as muche as to the instrument pertayneth) by the
deuise of a new quadrate newely inuented by the author hereof.

THE arte of measuryng by the astronomers staffe, and by the
astronomers ryng, and the form of makyng them both.

THE arte of makyng of Dials, bothe for the daie and the nyght,
with certayn new formes of fixed dialles for the moon and other
for the sterres, whiche may bee sette in glasse windowes to
serue by daie and by night. And howe you may by those dialles
knowe in what degree of the Zodiake not only the sonne, but also
the moone is. And how many howrs old she is. And also by the
same dial to know whether any eclipse shall be that moneth, of
the sonne or of the moone.

The makyng and vse of an instrument, wherby you maye not onely
measure the distance at ones of all places that you can see
togyther, howe muche eche one is from you, and euery one from
other, but also therby to drawe the plotte of any countreie that
you shall come in, as iustely as maie be, by mannes diligence
and labo