Two New Sciences

at your service personally, just as I had many times
done by letter, & at that encounter, I presented to Your
Most Illustrious Lordship the copy of these two works, which
at that time I happened to have ready; which you kindly
showed you appreciated much, & to be about to keep safe;
& by sharing them in France with some friend of yours,
expert in these sciences, to show that if well I was silent,
I was not, however, passing my life entirely
idly. I went about afterward, preparing myself, to
send some other copies, to Germany, to Flan-
ders, to England, to Spain, & perhaps even to some
place in Italy, when unexpectedly I come to be notified
by the Elzeviers, how they have under the press these
works of mine, & that therefore, I must take a reso-
lution regarding the dedication, & promptly send them
my concept regarding this. Moved by this unex-
pected, & unforeseen news, I have gone about me
myself concluding, that the desire of Your Most Illustrious Lordship
to excite, & amplify my name, by sharing
my writings with others has caused, that they have
arrived in the hands of the said Printers; who, hav-
ing worked to publish other works of mine, have
wanted to honor me, by sending them to the light, un-
der their most beautiful, & most ornate presses: For this,
these writings of mine, must feel, for having had the
luck, to go into the judgment of such a great Judge,
who, in the marvelous concurrence of so many Virtues,