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 The third formes, whiche be Cubes, and are made of. 3. multiplications, haue their roote repeted thrise.

And the like nombers did I sette, in the side of the former table, against the like quātities. Whiche shall helpe you somewhat in the extraction of rootes.

Scholar. ow doe I perceiue not onely their names, and multiplication, moche better then I did before: but also I vnderstande better the difference of your names, and their reasons. For by those figures, whiche you haue set in the fowerth place, and doe call theim longe Cubes, I see their forme doeth agree to that name. For thei are longer, then thei are other brode or depe. And saue for their depth, I might liken theim to longe Squares in Geometrie. Howbeit, other men neglectyng their forme, and lookyng onely to their rootes, doe call them, Squared squares.

But if you will permitte me, to speake in the defence of theim, as a simple scholar maie speake for affection, in the defence of his master, it appereth to me, that thei maie well bee called squared squares: and might be figured thus.

Where the smallest squares, whiche be contained within the pricked lines, beyng taken as rootes, and