r, then, either to want a name, or to haue to base and
impropre a name? You must of sundry professions, borow or challenge
home, peculier partes hereof: and farder procede: as, God, Nature,
Reason and Experience shall informe you. The Anatomistes will restore to
you, some part: The Physiognomistes, some: The Chyromantistes some. The
Metaposcopistes, some: The excellent, _Albert Durer_, a good part: the
Arte of Perspectiue, will somwhat, for the Eye, helpe forward:
_Pythagoras_, _Hipocrates_, _Plato_, _Galenus_, _Meletius_, & many other
(in certaine thinges) will be Contributaries. And farder, the Heauen,
the Earth, and all other Creatures, will eche shew, and offer their
Harmonious seruice, to fill vp, that, which wanteth hereof: and with
your own Experience, concluding: you may Methodically register the
whole, for the posteritie: Whereby, good profe will be had, of our
Harmonious, and
[Micro Cosmus.]
Microcosmicall constitution.
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The outward Image, and vew hereof: to the Art of _Zographie_ and
Painting, to Sculpture, and Architecture: (for Church, House, Fort, or
Ship) is most necessary and profitable: for that, it is the chiefe base
and foundation of them.
[* Lib. 3. Cap. 1.]
Looke in * _Vitruuius_, whether I deale sincerely for your behoufe, or
no. Looke in _Albertus Durerus_, _De Symmetria humani Corporis_. Looke
in the 27. and 28. Chapters, of the second booke, _De occulta
Philosophia_. Consider the _Arke_ of _Noe_. And by that, wade farther.
Remember the _Delphicall Oracle NOSCE TEIPSVM_ +_(Knowe thy selfe)_+ so
long agoe pronounced: of so many a Philosopher repeated: and of the
_Wisest_ attempted: And then, you will perceaue, how long agoe, you haue
bene called to the Schole, where this Arte might be learned. Well. I am
nothing affrayde, of the disdayne of some such, as thinke Sciences and
Artes, to be but Seuen. Perhaps, those Such, may, with ignorance, and
shame enough, come short of them Seuen also: and yet neuerthelesse they
can not prescribe a certaine number of Artes: and in eche, certaine
vnpassable boundes, to God, Nature, and mans Industrie. New Artes, dayly
rise vp: and there was no such order taken, that,
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All Artes, should in one age, or in one land, or of one man, be made
knowen to the world. Let vs embrace the giftes of God, and wayes to
wisedome, in this time of grace, from aboue, continually bestowed on
them, who thankefully will receiue them: _Et bonis
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