"It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may…"

"Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, …"

"Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth, round which the…"

"Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, neverthele…"

"We finish the brief hieroglyphic consideration of our Monad, which we would sum up in one only hieroglyphic context: …"

"There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and m…"

"O comfortable allurement, O ravishing persuasion to deal with a science whose subject is so ancient, so pure, so exce…"

"A mervaylous newtrality have these thinges Mathematicall, and also a straunge participatió betwene thynges supernatur…"

"[T]he idea of a maritime empire did not immediately seize the imagination of the English people, nor did it arise spo…"

"Such people, the real pioneers of the seaborne empire, were practical men: Captains Ralph Lane, John Smith and other …"