The Hieroglyphic Monad

PREFACE TO THE KING

...matter, [which] he might distress with incredible heat from Solar Rays: When, here, from a Trigonic Section of a Tetrahedron Trigonic Section of a Tetrahedron: A mathematical way of "cutting" a three-dimensional pyramid (tetrahedron) to reveal a triangular face, which Dee uses here to derive the geometry for a specialized burning-mirror., a Line is displayed; from whose Circularized Form, a Mirror can be made; Which (even when clouds are drawn before the Sun) can reduce any stones, or any metal, into almost impalpable powders by the force of heat (most truly the greatest). And he who
7. has sweated for his whole life over the subtle contemplation of WEIGHTS original: "PONDERVM": how well he will judge his labors and expenses to have been invested, when here, the mastery of our MONAD
8. will teach by most certain experience that the element of EARTH is able to float upon WATER? In Aristotelian physics, Earth is "heavy" and must sink below Water. Dee is suggesting his Monad reveals a secret of buoyancy or alchemical "sublimation" that defies standard natural laws. In no different way, those who have most diligently examined the principles of THE FULL & THE VOID original: "PLENI & VACVI"; referring to the "Plenum" and "Vacuum," a central debate in ancient and Renaissance physics regarding whether empty space can truly exist. (an argument controversial since the very cradle of philosophy): And they have seen that [these things] are coordinated by that Law, and (as if an indissoluble) bond of Nature, (by God, the Best and Greatest original: "Deo Optimo MAX.")...