arations, made in order,
there being increased: with y^t increasing, might come more cleare &
pleasant, to y^e eares of the lokers on. &c. And of Astronomie, is
knowen y^e East, West, South, and North. The fashion of the heauen, the
Aequinox, the Solsticie, and the course of the sterres. Which thinges,
vnleast one know: he can not perceiue, any thyng at all, the reason of
Horologies. Seyng therfore this ample Science, is garnished, beautified
and stored, with so many and sundry skils and knowledges: I thinke, that
none can iustly account them selues Architectes, of the suddeyne. But
they onely, who from their childes yeares, ascendyng by these degrees of
knowledges, beyng fostered vp with the atteynyng of many Languages and
Artes, haue wonne to the high Tabernacle of Architecture. &c. And to
whom Nature hath giuen such quicke Circumspection, sharpnes of witt, and
Memorie, that they may be very absolutely skillfull in Geometrie,
Astronomie, Musike, and the rest of the Artes Mathematicall: Such,
surmount and passe the callyng, and state, of Architectes:

[A Mathematicien.]

and are become Mathematiciens. &c. And they are found, seldome. As, in
tymes past, was Aristarchus Samius: Philolaus, and Archytas, Tarentynes:
Apollonius Pergaeus: Eratosthenes Cyreneus: Archimedes, and Scopas,
Syracusians. Who also, left to theyr posteritie, many Engines and
Gnomonicall workes: by numbers and naturall meanes, inuented and
declared._+

Thus much, and the same wordes (in sense) in one onely Chapter of this
Incomparable _Architect Vitruuius_, shall you finde. And if you should,
but take his boke in your hand, and slightly loke thorough it, you would
say straight way:

[Vitruuius.]

This is _Geometrie_, _Arithmetike_, _Astronomie_, _Musike_,
_Anthropographie_, _Hydragogie_, _Horometrie_. _&c_. and (to conclude)
the Storehouse of all workmanship. Now, let vs listen to our other
Iudge, our Florentine, _Leo Baptista_: and narrowly consider, how he
doth determine of _Architecture_. _Sed ante[que] vltra progrediar. &c.
+But before I procede any further +_(sayth he) +_I thinke, that I ought
to expresse, what man I would haue to bee allowed an Architect. For,
I will not bryng in place a Carpenter: as though you might Compare him
to the Chief Masters of other Artes. For the hand of the Carpenter, is
the Architectes Instrument._+

[VVho is an Architect.]

+_But I will appoint the Architect to be "that man, who hath the skil