w: Diomedes of brasse, doth blow a Trumpet loude:
a brasen Serpent hisseth: byrdes made, sing swetely. Small thynges we
rehearse of you, who can Imitate the heauen. &c._+ Of the straunge
Selfmouyng, which, at Saint Denys, by Paris,

[* Anno. 1551]

* I saw, ones or twise (_Orontius_ beyng then with me, in Company) it
were to straunge to tell. But some haue written it. And yet, (I hope) it
is there, of other to be sene. And by _Perspectiue_ also straunge
thinges, are done. As partly (before) I gaue you to vnderstand in
_Perspectiue_. As, to see in the Ayre, a loft, the lyuely Image of an
other man, either walkyng to and fro: or standyng still. Likewise, to
come into an house, and there to see the liuely shew of Gold, Siluer or
precious stones: and commyng to take them in your hand, to finde nought
but Ayre. Hereby, haue some men (in all other matters counted wise)
fouly ouershot them selues: misdeaming of the meanes. Therfore sayd
_Claudius Caelestinus_.

[De his quae Mundo mirabiliter eueniunt. cap. 8.]

_Hodie magnae literaturae viros & magna reputationis videmus, opera
quedam quasi miranda, supra Naturan putare: de quibus in Perspectiua
doctus causam faciliter reddidisset._ That is. +_Now a dayes, we see
some men, yea of great learnyng and reputation, to Iudge certain workes
as meruaylous, aboue the power of Nature: Of which workes, one that were
skillfull in Perspectiue might easely haue giuen the Cause._+ Of
_Archimedes Sphaere_, _Cicero_ witnesseth.

[Tusc. 1.]

Which is very straunge to thinke on. +_For when Archimedes_+ (sayth he)
+_did fasten in a Sphaere, the mouynges of the Sonne, Mone, and of the
fiue other Planets, he did, as the God, which (in Timaeus of Plato) did
make the world. That, one turnyng, should rule motions most vnlike in
slownes, and swiftnes._+ But a greater cause of meruayling we haue by
_Claudianus_ report hereof. Who affirmeth this _Archimedes worke_, to
haue ben of Glasse. And discourseth of it more at large: which I omit.
The Doue of wood, which the _Mathematicien Archytas_ did make to flye,
is by _Agellius_ spoken of. Of _Daedalus_ straunge Images, _Plato_
reporteth. _Homere_ of _Vulcans Selfmouers_, (by secret wheles) leaueth
in writyng. _Aristotle_, in hys _Politikes_, of both, maketh mention.
Meruaylous was the workemanshyp, of late dayes, performed by good skill
of _Trochilike. &c._ For in Noremberge, A flye of Iern, beyng let out of
the Artificers hand, did (as it