Theater of Machines, Volume 4

...pursue them, especially those who are great lords and noblemen.

In the same way, I am also of the thought that many a Zoilus: a classical reference to a harsh and envious critic. with his envious tongue will not fail to disparage me by saying that these things are not my inventiones inventions, but that I adorn myself with the feathers of other learned men. To them, I present this question to answer: original: "Quot putas haberemus hodie in mundo doctos viros, si non uteremur majorum nostrorum inventis?" That is: "How many skilled men do you think we would find in the world today if we did not make use of the inventions of our ancestors?" They should also consider that I do not present this art, which was invented 100 years or more ago, as my own, but gladly confess that I have selected it from other autoribus authors according to my own, albeit meager, judicio judgment, but not...