ommunicate the pith therof vnto you.

First describe a circle: whose diameter let be an inch. Diuide the
Circumference into foure equall partes. From the Center, by those 4.
sections, extend 4. right lines: eche of 4. inches and a halfe long: or
of as many as you liste, aboue 4. without the circumference of the
circle: So that they shall be of 4. inches long (at the least) without
the Circle. Make good euident markes, at euery inches end. If you list,
you may subdiuide the inches againe into 10. or 12. smaller partes,
equall. At the endes of the lines, write the names of the 4. principall
elementall Qualities. _Hote_ and _Colde_, one against the other. And
likewise _Moyst_ and _Dry_, one against the other. And in the Circle
write _Temperate_. Which _Temperature_ hath a good Latitude: as
appeareth by the Complexion of man. And therefore we haue allowed vnto
it, the foresayd Circle: and not a point Mathematicall or Physicall.

[* Take some part of Lullus counsayle in his booke
de Q. Essentia.]

Now, when you haue two thinges Miscible, whose degrees are * truely
knowen: Of necessitie, either they are of one Quantitie and waight, or
of diuerse. If they be of one Quantitie and waight: whether their
formes, be Contrary Qualities, or of one kinde (but of diuerse
intentions and degrees) or a _Temperate_, and a Contrary, _The forme
resulting of their Mixture, is in the Middle betwene the degrees of the
formes mixt_. As for example, let _A_, be _Moist_ in the first degree:
and _B_, _Dry_ in the third degree. Adde 1. and 3. that maketh 4: the
halfe or middle of 4. is 2. This 2. is the middle, equally distant from
_A_ and _B_

[* Note.]

(for the * _Temperament_ is counted none. And for it, you must put a
Ciphre, if at any time, it be in mixture).

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