That vpon any centre, there may be made a circle of anye quãtitee that a man wyll. - The Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie - 4 - Robert Record

That any right line of measurable length may be drawen forth longer, and straight.That all right angles be equall eche to other.

That vpon any centre, there may be made a circle of anye quãtitee that a man wyll.

Let the centre be set to be A, what shal hinder a man to drawe a circle aboute it, of what quantitee that he lusteth, as you se the forme here: other bygger or lesse, as it shall lyke him to doo: