Geometries verdicte
All fresshe fine wittes by me are filed,
All grosse dull wittes wishe me exiled:
Thoughe no mannes witte reiect will I,
Yet as they be, I wyll them trye.
[ The argumentes of the foure bookes]
The first booke declareth the definitions of the termes and names vsed in Geometry, with certaine of the chiefe grounds whereon the arte is founded. And then teacheth those conclusions, which may serue diuersely in al workes Geometricall.
The second booke doth sette forth the Theoremes, (whiche maye be called approued truthes) seruinge for the due knowledge and sure proofe of all conclusions and workes in Geometrye.
The third booke intreateth of diuers formes, and sondry protractions thereto belonging, with the vse of certain conclusions.