helpe of Geometrye as his
woorkes do witnes. Yea the faculties of the minde dothe hee
expresse by similitude to figures of Geometrye. And in morall
phylosophy he thought that iustice coulde not wel be taught, nor
yet well executed without proportion geometricall. And this
estimacion of Geometry he maye seeme to haue learned of his
maister Plato, which without Geometrye wolde teache nothinge,
nother wold admitte any to heare him, except he were experte in
Geometry. And what merualle if he so muche estemed geometrye,
seinge his opinion was, that Godde was alwaies workinge by
Geometrie? Whiche sentence Plutarche declareth at large. And
although Platto do vse the helpe of Geometrye in all the most
waighte matter of a common wealth, yet it is so generall in vse,
that no small thinges almost can be wel done without it. And
therfore saith he: that Geometrye is to be learned, if it were
for none other cause, but that all other artes are bothe soner
and more surely vnderstand by helpe of it.

What greate help it dothe in physike, Galene doth so often and
so copiousely declare, that no man whiche hath redde any booke
almoste of his, can be ignorant thereof, in so much that he
coulde neuer cure well a rounde vlcere, tyll reason geometricall
dydde teache it hym. Hippocrates is earnest in admonyshynge that
study of geometrie must prepare the way to physike, as well as
to all other artes.

I shoulde seeme somewhat to tedious, if I shoulde recken vp,
howe the diuines also in all their mysteries of scripture doo
vse healpe of geometrie: and also that lawyers can neuer
vnderstande the hole lawe, no nor yet the firste title therof
exactly without Geometrie. For if lawes can not well be
established, nor iustice duelie executed without geometricall
proportion, as bothe Plato in his Politike bokes, and Aristotle
in his Moralles doo largely declare. Yea sithe Lycurgus that
cheefe lawmaker amongest the Lacedemonians, is moste praised for
that he didde chaunge the state of their common wealthe frome
the proportion Arithmeticall to a proportion geometricall,
whiche without knowledg of bothe he coulde not dooe, than is it
easye to perceaue howe necessarie Geometrie is for the lawe and
studentes thereof. And if I shall saie preciselie and freelie as
I thinke, he is vtterlie destitute of all abilitee to iudge in
anie arte, that is not sommewhat experte in the Theoremes of
Geometrie.

And that caused Galene to say of hym selfe, that he coul