many histories, and diligently haue heard Philosophers,
haue skill of Musike, not ignorant of Physike, know the aunsweres of
Lawyers, and haue Astronomie, and the courses Caelestiall, in good
knowledge._+ He geueth reason, orderly, wherefore all these Artes,
Doctrines, and Instructions, are requisite in an excellent _Architect_.
And (for breuitie) omitting the Latin text, thus he hath. +_Secondly, it
is behofefull for an Architect to haue the knowledge of Painting: that
he may the more easilie fashion out, in patternes painted, the forme of
what worke he liketh. And Geometrie, geueth to Architecture many helpes:
and first teacheth the Vse of the Rule, and the Cumpasse: wherby
(chiefly and easilie) the descriptions of Buildinges, are despatched in
Groundplats: and the directions of Squires, Leuells, and Lines.
Likewise, by Perspectiue, the Lightes of the heauen, are well led, in
the buildinges: from certaine quarters of the world. By Arithmetike, the
charges of Buildinges are summed together: the measures are expressed,
and the hard questions of Symmetries, are by Geometricall Meanes and
Methods discoursed on. &c. Besides this, of the Nature of thinges (which
in Greke is called #phusiologia#) Philosophie doth make declaration.
Which, it is necessary, for an Architect, with diligence to haue
learned: because it hath many and diuers naturall questions: as
specially, in Aqueductes. For in their courses, leadinges about, in the
leuell ground, and in the mountinges, the naturall Spirites or breathes
are ingendred diuers wayes: The hindrances, which they cause, no man can
helpe, but he, which out of Philosophie, hath learned the originall
causes of thinges. Likewise, who soeuer shall read Ctesibius, or
Archimedes bookes, (and of others, who haue written such Rules) can not
thinke, as they do: vnlesse he shall haue receaued of Philosophers,
instructions in these thinges. And Musike he must nedes know: that he
may haue vnderstanding, both of Regular and Mathematicall Musike: that
he may temper well his Balistes, Catapultes, and Scorpions. &c.
Moreouer, the Brasen Vessels, which in Theatres, are placed by
Mathematicall order, in ambries, vnder the steppes: and the diuersities
of the soundes (which y^e Grecians call #e:cheia#) are ordred according
to Musicall Symphonies & Harmonies: being distributed in y^e Circuites,
by Diatessaron, Diapente, and Diapason. That the conuenient voyce, of
the players sound, when it came to these prep