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 multiplied, whiche are liniarie nombers: And the 8. multiplication, woorketh as the seconde did, and maketh flatte nombers. The nineth multiplication agreably with the thirde, doeth make Cubes.

And so infinitely these. 3. woorkes maie bee reiterate, but a fourthe forme can neue be deuised.

And therfore doe I, as reason doeth compell me, reduce all nombers to those. 3. formes, as their verie originalle sprynges and fountaines.

But to the intente that you maie the more aptly iudge of theim, and their natures, I haue here sette foorthe the formes, whiche thei make in figures Geometricalle, or sounde quantities. Admonishyng you to remember this well. That after any nomber is become a sounde nomber, it is against reason, to reduce him to an absolute flatte omber again, and moste of all by multiplication. But now marke these figures.