Mathematicall Magick

unto the power of Magick; For which reason the Ancients did name this art Θαυμα-
τοποιητικὴ, or Mirandorum Effectrix.

The first book is called Archimedes, because he was the chiefest in the discovering of Mechanical powers.

The second is styled by the name of Daedalus, who is related to be one of the first and most famous amongst the Ancients for his skill in making Automata, or self-moving Engines: both of these being two of the first Authors that did reduce Mathematical principles unto Mechanical experiments.

Other discourses of this kind are, for the most part, large and voluminous, of great price, and hardly gotten; and besides, there are not any of them (that I know of) in our vulgar tongue, for which these Mechanical arts, of all others, are most proper. These inconveniences are here in some measure remedied, together with the addition (if I mistake not) of divers things very considerable, and not insisted upon by others.

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