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 And these are their formes.

In the firste figure you see. 2. expressed in lengthe bredthe, and depthe. And in the second forme. 3. is represented in all those. 3. dimensions. In the. 4. figure 4. is the roote, and is drawen agreably to that forme.

Scholar. This is manifeste inough to sighte.

Master. Yet reason ought to waigh it more exactly, then sight can comprehende it. For as their triple multiplication doeth resēble the nature of sounde bodies, so it might appeare more iuste expressyng of their figures, agreably as sounde bodies ought: in whiche euery parte can not appeare to sighte, sith diuerse of them loke inwardly. As by these. 3. laste figures you maie partely coniecture. Of whiche at this tyme and in this place, some men will thinke it an ouersighte to speake, and moche more ouersighte to write of them any thyng largely. Saue, that we maie vse theim for the apter explication of that triple mul-