s, to wonderfull vses:
and when he list, retire home into his owne Centre: and there, prepare
more Meanes, to Ascend or Descend by: and, all, to the glory of God, and
our honest delectation in earth.

Although, the Printer, hath looked for this Praeface, a day or two, yet
could I not bring my pen from the paper, before I had giuen you
comfortable warning, and brief instructions, of some of the Commodities,
by _Statike_, hable to be reaped: In the rest, I will therfore, be as
brief, as it is possible: and with all, describing them, somwhat
accordingly. And that, you shall perceiue, by this, which in order
commeth next. For, wheras, it is so ample and wonderfull, that, an whole
yeare long, one might finde fruitfull matter therin, to speake of: and
also in practise, is a Threasure endeles: yet will I glanse ouer it,
with wordes very few.

This do I call +%Anthropographie%+. Which is an Art restored, and of my
preferment to your Seruice. I pray you, thinke of it, as of one of the
chief pointes, of Humane knowledge. Although it be, but now, first
Confirmed, with this new name: yet the matter, hath from the beginning,
ben in consideration of all perfect Philosophers. +Anthropographie, is
the description of the Number, Measure, Waight, figure, Situation, and
colour of euery diuerse thing, conteyned in the perfect body of MAN:
with certain knowledge of the Symmetrie, figure, waight,
Characterization, and due locall motion, of any parcell of the sayd
body, assigned: and of Numbers, to the sayd parcell appertainyng.+ This,
is the one part of the Definition, mete for this place: Sufficient to
notifie, the particularitie, and excellency of the Arte: and why it is,
here, ascribed to the Mathematicals. Yf the description of the heauenly
part of the world, had a peculier Art, called _Astronomie:_ If the
description of the earthly Globe, hath his peculier arte, called
_Geographie_. If the Matching of both, hath his peculier Arte, called
_Cosmographie:_ Which is the Description of the whole, and vniuersall
frame of the world: Why should not the description of

[MAN is the Lesse World.]

him, who is the Lesse world: and, from the beginning, called
_Microcosmus_ (that is. _The Lesse World._) And for whose sake, and
seruice, all bodily creatures els, were created: Who, also,
participateth with Spirites, and Angels: and is made to the Image and
similitude of _God_: haue his peculier Art? and be called the _Arte of
Artes_: rathe