+ And for asmuch as, by the Bilanx, or Balance
(as the chief sensible Instrument,) Experience of these demonstrations
may be had: we call this Art, _Statike:_ that is, _the Experimentes of
the Balance_. Oh, that men wist, what proffit, (all maner of wayes) by
this Arte might grow, to the hable examiner, and diligent practiser.
"Thou onely, knowest all thinges precisely (O God) who hast made weight
and Balance, thy Iudgement: who hast created all thinges in _Number,
Waight, and Measure_: and hast wayed the mountaines and hils in a
Balance: who hast peysed in thy hand, both Heauen and earth. We therfore
warned by the Sacred word, to Consider thy Creatures: and by that
consideration, to wynne a glyms (as it were,) or shaddow of
perceiuerance, that thy wisedome, might, and goodnes is infinite, and
vnspeakable, in thy Creatures declared: And being farder aduertised, by
thy mercifull goodnes, that, three principall wayes, were, of the, vsed
in Creation of all thy Creatures, namely, _Number_, _Waight_ and
_Measure_, And for as much as, of _Number_ and _Measure_, the two Artes
(auncient, famous, and to humaine vses most necessary,) are, all ready,
sufficiently knowen and extant: This third key, we beseche thee (through
thy accustomed goodnes,) that it may come to the nedefull and sufficient
knowledge, of such thy Seruauntes, as in thy workemanship, would gladly
finde, thy true occasions (purposely of the vsed) whereby we should
glorifie thy name, and shew forth (to the weaklinges in faith) thy
wondrous wisedome and Goodnes. Amen."

Meruaile nothing at this pang (godly frend, you Gentle and zelous
Student.) An other day, perchaunce, you will perceiue, what occasion
moued me. Here, as now, I will giue you some ground, and withall some
shew, of certaine commodities, by this Arte arising. And bycause this
Arte is rare, my wordes and practises might be to darke: vnleast you had
some light, holden before the matter: and that, best will be, in giuing
you, out of _Archimedes_ demonstrations, a few principal Conclusions, as
foloweth.

+1.+

+The Superficies of euery Liquor, by it selfe consistyng, and in
quyet, is Sphaericall: the centre whereof, is the same, which is the
centre of the Earth.+

+2.+

+If Solide Magnitudes, being of the same bignes, or quantitie, that
any Liquor is, and hauyng also the same Waight: be let downe into
the same Liquor, they will settle downeward, so, that no parte of
them, shall b