Six Geometrical Exercises (Exercitationes Geometricae Sex)

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MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MOST WISE LORDS.

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Wisdom, as the most noble mother of humanity, has been acknowledged and venerated by very many most prudent men, among whom is Cicero in book 7 of De finibus On the Ends of Good and Evil. For she, fashioning the hearts with better clay, knows how to make them only a little less than Jove, and has proven that those who are born with more distinguished letters are the same.

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